in proximity
November 3, 2024
39 min

How Writers and Producers Work Together with Jonny Sun and Rebecca Cho

GMORNING, GNITE! everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too. BOJACK HORSEMAN. GOODBYE, AGAIN. Jonny Sun is a film and TV writer, producer, author, and illustrator who has worked with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Damon Lindelof. His background is in architecture and engineering as a doctoral candidate at MIT and a creative researcher at the Harvard metaLAB. His writing career took off after he created the beloved alien Twitter persona Jomny Sun which earned him over half a million followers and a place on TIME Magazine’s 25 Most Influential People on the Internet in 2017. On this episode, Jonny sits with Proximity’s head of film Rebecca Cho to share what they’ve learned about collaborating as writer and producer while developing a feature screenplay together.

02:21  

Get Reel  

10:24  

Jomny Sun the Twitter alien  

14:31  

The “Asian six-pack” and finding creativity in math and science  

21:20  

What makes a great collaborator  

30:16  

Developing their project from idea to screenplay  

34:23  

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