Writing the #1 Film on Netflix With Laura Hankin

Hear from writer Laura Hankin on the process of co-writing the #1 film on Netflix, "Don't Say Good Luck."

Accomplished novelist Laura Hankin ("One-Star Romance," "The Daydreams," "A Special Place for Women") wrote the screenplay inspired by her personal experience of being cast as the lead in her high school's musical while dealing with her mother's terminal illness. The film, co-written and directed by Julia Hart ("I'm Your Woman," "Miss Stevens") was produced by Adam Sandler and stars Sunny Sandler, Melanie Lynskey, Max Greenfield, and Stephanie Beatriz.

We'll talk about:

• How Laura built a writing career as a novelist and how she began writing screenplays

• What it was like writing from her own personal experience and how it helped her process these events

• The process of bringing her idea from concept to script, and what her writing schedule was like

• How the script got in front of the right people to get produced and seen

• What it's like to see your words come to life through actors including Sunny Sandler, Melanie Lynskey, Max Greenfield, and Stephanie Beatriz

• What the publicity process has been like

• And much more!

Laura Hankin is an author, screenwriter, and performer who writes novels that you can read on a beach but also for a book club. Her film projects include the upcoming DON'T SAY GOOD LUCK (Netflix), while her books include ONE-STAR ROMANCE, a Book of the Month pick that The Washington Post calls "real, refreshing and romantic," THE DAYDREAMS, one of the "Best Beach Reads of 2023" (Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and more), HAPPY & YOU KNOW IT, a Book of the Month and Library Reads selection, and A SPECIAL PLACE FOR WOMEN, as seen on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She lives with her family in Washington, DC, where she once fell off a treadmill twice in one day.

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