Liz Hannah and Josh Singer on
The Post 2017
Hannah's spec, inspired by Katharine Graham's memoir, sold to Amy Pascal within a year; Spielberg signed on after reading it in February and shot on a sub-12-week schedule to make a 2017 release.
The Big Picture · Interview
The Urgency of 'The Post' With Screenwriters Liz Hannah and Josh Singer
December 29, 2017/ 31 min/ Sean Fennessey
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer on writing 'The Post' together, from Hannah's spec script to Singer joining the set after Spotlight.
6 films across 2 segments.
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In conversation
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer on
Spotlight 2015
Singer's Best Original Screenplay win, the credential that had him "understood to be capable" when Christy Diesel called about joining The Post.
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer on
The Fifth Estate 2013
Singer's first produced script and first journalism movie, grown out of a spec about George Gershwin that Spielberg beat him to.
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer on
Wonder Woman 2017
Hannah's example of a movie already showing a woman empowered; the appetite for more of that, she says, is what The Post taps into.
The last great thing they've seen
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer on
Whiplash 2014
The film Singer's agent had him watch the morning before he first met Damien Chazelle about First Man; it's why he took the job.
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer on
First Man 2018
Singer's next produced script, a Neil Armstrong biopic with Chazelle, brought up here about a year before release.
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