Iker Maidagan

Story guy for film and videogames. Apple, Netflix, Lucasfilm and the like. Mostly writing screenplays nowadays.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

@DDrawsDinosaurs Te ha quedado alucinante. El mejor poster de Unforgiven que he visto, sinceramente.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

Boy, this site sure has gone down the drain, hasn't it?

It had never been great, but it's now Facebook levels of an anarchic wasteland of spam, bots, AI bros and related troglofauna. Give it a few more months and it may spawn the first sentient digital wendigo.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

I can't for the life of me understand why, globally, TV programs and publications about folklore share the need to pass what should be a perfectly harmless look at mythology as investigative journalism. I don't need to believe in the Chupacabra to enjoy learning about its legend.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

Obviously this is just an opinion and not a drug dosage guide. But some films end up short of breath for sticking to very short runtimes, and nobody ever needed all those 3 hour long actioners they insist on making today.

The best feature under 90 is Spielberg's Duel, of course.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

I normally don't care for these prompts but I like LWL and this is an interesting topic.

A runtime below 90 mins suits horror, comedy or slice of life best. 120 is balanced for most films. Don't go over that unless you're making Cleopatra, and def not for a Transformers movie.

[Little White Lies @LWLies]

With the forthcoming Martin Scorsese film set to run at a compact 80 mins, what're everyone's favourite films that land in the 75-85 min bracket? 82 mins, of course, being the perfect runtime for a motion picture. (Below: Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue – 81 mins)

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

Always thought that the problem with “write what you know” is that people take it literally and interpret they can only write about types of cereal they ate growing up. You can write a robot uprising story that’s informed by your own mundane, human experiences though.

[Bill Willingham @BillWillingham]

More helpful pro writing tips:

1) Stay out of social media wars.

2) Don’t try to copyright the Sun.

3) Don’t use a Thesaurus to look up words you DON’T know.

4) “Write what you know” isn’t really the best advice. Change it to write what you can find out.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

This was actually the second game project I worked on this year, if you can believe it. Does that make me a dev now? Who hands out those IDs?

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

I gave these good folks a hand with a number of shots in this trailer. It'll be an indie sci-fi game based on a comic book by artist @mikimontllo and writer @SylvainRunberg. Project lead @rveenewman and his team are doing a terrific job translating the page to the screen.

[Proxima Studio @studioproxima]

The full teaser trailer for #warshipjollyroger is out now! You can watch the entire trailer on Steam or YouTube. If you enjoy it, please consider adding it to your wishlist. As a small team, every bit of support means the world to us. Thank you for being part of our journey! https://t.co/cnj1X2mQYA

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

@Vlanco @mediamolecule Looking forward to whatever comes next, Miguel. Eres un crack.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

@StevenGhouti Great work all of you. Congrats on the film. I had a couple of friends working on it on the art side.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

Robot Dreams is the most authentic New York has felt in a movie in a long time. If you ever lived there, they captured the city’s wholesome side like no one since Nora Ephron.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

@sixfootgiraffe Stunning work.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

I did not expect Remedy to go this hard with Alan Wake II. I'm a big fan of all their stuff, but this was a giant leap in scope and depth. As if David Lynch and Panos Cosmatos co-created something with the budget of a James Cameron epic. I cannot believe what I've seen.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

@hughflemingart @BottleneckNYC Terrific work with these, I hope they keep coming. You have a natural talent to combine the classic illustration feel we’re used to with these movies and a fresh take that makes them stand out as yours. Like, a blue sky in an Indy poster? Sure why not.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

This read was right up my alley. I tend to enjoy Grann's books more than the films other people make of them, maybe cause in some way, I think they're better book material anyway.

That said, looking forward to seeing what Scorsese does with this. Especially if he co-directs.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

@Gaarrgh Great!

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

@Gaarrgh What’s a good episode to start from? I usually shudder at the thought of programs that claim to follow “a journalistic approach” to ghosts and aliens but then I watch or listen to them anyway because I have to.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

I've seen people here and there saying Cartoon Saloon could've made this film and, while an ok match when you think of story sensibilities alone, I can't even begin to list all the reasons why you'd have better chances of getting hit by a meteor tomorrow than this ever happening.

[Iker Maidagan @ikermaidagan]

Any living, breathing creature knows that if a Zelda movie were to exist, it was always meant to be traditional animation produced in Japan.