Episode 213: Why comedian Ryan Beil set out to make an unfunny sci-fi pilot

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast · Mar 18, 2022 · 30m

Let’s Make A Sci-Fi is audacious. The new CBC podcast follows three Vancouver comedians – Ryan Beil, Maddy Kelly and Mark Chavez – as they set out to write a successful, non-comedy sci-fi pilot with help from scientific experts and Hollywood screenwriting pros, including actor Rainn Wilson, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp, showrunners Jem Garrard and Simon Barry, and Catherine Winder, CEO of Wind Sun Sky. Over the course of eight episodes, the comedians overcome challenges such as developing their story-world, plot, characters, and the science, as they…