Poured Over: David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon From Page to Screen
\u201cAnd so we wouldn't be here without Natalie Portman, which isn't a sentence I was expecting to say this evening. But if you ever watched this, Natalie, thank you. Really thank you.\u201d That\u2019s novelist and screenwriter David Mitchell explaining the genesis of his friendships and working relationships with Lana Wachowski and Aleksandar Hemon\u2014which includes screenplay credits on\xa0Sense8\xa0and now,\xa0The Matrix Resurrections. David and Aleksandar join us on the show to talk about creativity and collaboration, their writing partnership, how language changes from page to screen, envisioning the future, and much more. Featured books:\xa0Cloud Atlas,\xa0Utopia Avenue,\xa0The Bone Clocks\xa0and\xa0Black Swan Green\xa0by David Mitchell and\xa0My Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to You,\xa0Love & Obstacles\xa0and\xa0The Lazarus Man\xa0by Aleksandar Hemon. Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and engineered by Harry Liang. (P.S. We\u2019re taking a little break for the rest of this year and returning with a new episode on 1/4/22.)
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