Literary Manager & Producer Jake Wagner of Good Fear Content
The Tracking Board, in partnership with The Script Lab, is excited to present a new episode of ANATOMY OF A SALE.
Good Fear Content’s Jake Wagner joins us for the latest installment of Anatomy of a Sale. Jake walks us through one of his own concepts, which would plant the seeds for STUBER written by Tripper Clancy. The script, which landed on the Hit List, sold to Fox in a six-figure deal and stars Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani. Jake recounts the writer’s overall goal of writing a studio project, utilizing the holiday break to best maximize time, going wide to a modern-day market with a completely original idea, all the way to the release of a big summer blockbuster.
Jake Wagner is a literary Manager and producer from Good Fear Content. He remains one of the industry’s top managers, leading the charge for countless mega-sales including Paramount’s Crawl, Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman, and Princesses set up with Sony, to name a few. Jake has signed more writers from the Launch Pad competition than any other manager in town and he has been essential to launching numerous writers’ careers, exemplifying what it means to be a manager.
Don’t forget to check out Jake’s previous episode by clicking here.
Anatomy of a Sale centers on the story behind the story, as in each episode we’ll hear from the industry’s top executives, representatives and writers chronicling their journey from the birth of a script to its eventual success. You’ll learn about the struggles of taking a project to market, the painstaking hours that go into breaking the narrative, the ups and downs of industry reception, and much more. So sit back, relax, and study the inner-workings of the Anatomy of a Sale.
This episode is produced by Emily Dell and edited by Rob Schultz. For more video content, head over to TSL 360: The #1 Screenwriting Education Video Library. Be sure to stay up to date on Jake Wagner and all spec and sale related news by subscribing now.
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