Nick Lowe’s Mutant Popcorn Extras, February 2025
IZ’s Mutant Popcorn film critic Nick Lowe joined me on the show to look back at the sff films of 2024, to talk about some fantastic screenplays (including Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance), and to look ahead at some of the 2025 films we’re excited to see (including a read of some revealing IMDb tags). It’s the longest IZ show yet, full of great things, and was a lot of fun to make.
Here are some of the screenplays (many unproduced) Nick talked about during the show:
A Topiary, Shane Carruth | Indieground Films
Avatar, James Cameron (1995 Project 880 scriptment) | Avatar Wiki
Bessie, Richard Kelly | PDFCOFFEE
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman | Indieground Films
Her, Spike Jonze | Indieground Films
Heretic, Scott Beck & Bryan Woods | DocumentCloud
I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun | DocumentCloud
The Keys to the Street, Christopher Nolan | The Script Savant
One Saliva Bubble, David Lynch | The City of Absurdity
Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan | DocumentCloud
Ronnie Rocket, David Lynch | The City of Absurdity, early draft & later draft
Spider-Man, James Cameron (1996 scriptment) | ScriptLab
Strange Days, James Cameron (original scriptment) | Screencraft
The Modern Ocean, Shane Carruth | Dropbox
The Substance, Coralie Fargeat | DocumentCloud
Read Nick’s Mutant Popcorn in Interzone, and browse the indices of all the films Nick has reviewed and every column he has written.
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