A friend of mine works on Beyonce’s law team. He/she (protecting my source here) told me this video was laughed over, encouraged by and enjoyed and supported in advance of its public release by Beyonce and Jay Z. (And then, of course, released on Tidal.) Apparently Beyonce has a pretty good sense of humour.

For some reason I cannot turn italics off right now. So, don’t be envious of my life.

It depends. But usually you renew them yearly. But it all depends on the initial deal and what’s agreed upon. In my experience anyway.

I am the person who is not Ron Howard and who couldn’t get this made.

A black man is actually doing the script-doctoring of this.

I am a POC and a successful screenwriter/script-doctor and I write and work on movies all the time about/from the perspective of people of all races and all genders. It’s part of the fun of being a writer. And I do my job right, no one knows cares about me as an artist. They only care about the art.

Just replied to someone else. A white woman wrote first script, a black man is doing the script-doctoring.

And as I just replied to someone else, a black male writer is doing most of the script-doctoring on the movie right now.

It might also interest everyone to know that a black male writer is actually one of the chief re-writers/script-doctors on the script.

A woman has written the script.

A lot of what you read and your opinions about her might have had to do with the fact that her history was almost exclusively written about and recorded by men. (Even if you were reading academic texts on her the primary cited source for such things was mostly male academics.) Nancy Mitford’s book (which the script is…

The book it was based on was good and favors Zelda as the real genius in the situation. I have read the initial script and it’s decent and very much about a unique thinker whose gender made it hard for her to have her writing taken seriously. It’s not a poor white girl story so much as it’s a poor human story. But…

Script was written by a woman.

I owned the rights to this book for a couple years. This movie was hard-pressed to get made without someone as famous as JL attached to it.