On Wednesday, Franklin Leonard, the founder of The Black List, joins us on this week’s episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. We learn all about the website and how it functions for screenwriters looking to break into the industry and for producers and agents looking for material. Franklin addresses how the site’s evaluation process acknowledges the inherent subjectivity of judging screenplays and stresses the site's readers are by no means applying an objective standard of art on submitted works. We consider the undervalued amount of work that goes into writing a great screenplay and how The Black List can vindicate one’s interest in a script that may otherwise be normally considered as “offbeat” or “weird.” We also ask Franklin if he’d ever write a script himself!⁠ ⁠ Hear more about Franklin and The Black List later this week!⁠ -⁠ #teamdeakins #rogerdeakins #rogeradeakins #sirRoger #bywaysBook #jamesellisdeakins #teamdeakinspodcast #franklinLeonard #theBlackList #development #screenwr...