Screenwriting : How Yellowjackets Created the Misty Quigley Character by Combining Another Character by D.L. Holmes

D.L. Holmes

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3 years ago

How Yellowjackets Created the Misty Quigley Character by Combining Another Character

Hi everyone, this is my first time posting in the lounge. Yesterday, I attended the Netflix + Stage 32 Present: How To Write a TV Series To Budget and how characters can be combined to help with the budget. During the discussion, I commented how the show "Yellowjackets" did this in their pilot network draft versus the final version by combining two characters. I decided to explain it in a little detail in my blog post. If anyone is interested, I hope they find it useful for their own scripts.

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Budgeting a TV Series: How Yellowjackets Combined Characters From Draft to Screen to Create the Electrifying and Terrifying Misty Quigley

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If you haven't watched it already, Yellowjackets is perhaps the best new show this side of the 2020s. Created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson, this sharp spiky survival tale of a high school girl socc…