Arc Studio Presents
Live Q&A With Marvel Screenwriters Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari
March 13, 2024
8:45 PM Pacific · 11:45 PM Eastern
Virtual event
Featuring Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari
About the event
Screenwriting duo Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari worked as script doctors on Ant-Man and were the first writers on Ant-Man and the Wasp with Paul Rudd. They discuss their career and give us a peek behind the scenes at the process of writing Marvel movies.
Chapters
0:15 — How did they end up as a writing team
1:00 — Writing their first script "Die in a Gunfight" together
2:56 — The importance of writing scripts that are fun to read
3:40 — Their strengths as a writing team
5:46 — Getting aligned on projects as a writing team
6:57 — Killing your writing partner’s “darlings”
9:15 — Scripts that rise to the top of the pile
10:28 — Working as script doctors on "Ant-Man"
13:50 — The outlining process for "Ant-Man and the Wasp"
16:25 — Andrew and Gabe’s approach to story structure
19:00 — Freedoms and restrictions when writing "Ant-Man and the Wasp"
20:18 — What’s it like being replaced by other writers?
