Kelly Marcel

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Before Fifty Shades of Grey, before Venom, Kelly Marcel wrote a spec about a two-week standoff between Walt Disney and P.L. Travers, and it landed on the 2011 Black List.

This week on Blacklisted, Kelly joins me to talk about turning one of Disney's most closely guarded pieces of company history into Saving Mr. Banks.

We also get into her leap from Terra Nova to features, and why she still believes in writing the script nobody asked for.

And yes, saying 'no' to Stephen Spielberg...

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Useful links:

Disney Acquiring 'Saving Mr. Banks' - Deadline

Kelly Marcel Interview - Go Into The Story

Saving Mr. Banks (Script Review) - ScriptShadow

Emma Thompson Interview - Variety

Movie Structure Analysis - Helping Writers Become Authors