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Andrew Ellard

@ellardent.bsky.social

Writer of Nova Jones (CBBC), Deep Heat (ITV2) and AfterDeath (film). Script editor of far more famous things. Neurodivergent and widowed. A typo in every tweet, guaranteed.

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Andrew Ellard@ellardent.bsky.social · 3d ago

Very struck by just how specifically Spider-Man Brand New Day is focused on loss and recovery. Loss of self, of loved ones, of control. And in particular how connection is vital to any kind of recovery.

Andrew Ellard@ellardent.bsky.social · 2w ago

Darren’s one-two punch of video essays on “Christopher Nolan” and “The Odyssey” are as good as video essays get for reading of filmic text and their cultural contexts. Click this first one - which you can watch without any Odyssey spoilers - immediately.

Darren Mooney@darrenmooney.bsky.social · 3w ago

#TheOdyssey is opening this week, which is a good excuse at @SecondWindGroup.com to talk about Nolan in general on this week’s “Backdrop” episode. Taking a look at Nolan’s love affair with IMAX, practical effects, and how that reflects the films he makes. youtu.be/zvu-Fzl9m5E?...

Andrew Ellard@ellardent.bsky.social · last mo.

Just played chapter 8 of 007 First Light. Haven’t loved a Bond game this much ever. Not even close. Someone have me on a podcast to rhapsodise. So much good writing. Two back to back scenes equate Bond with heart and hope. Words rarely used for the character but so applicable. It’s a real *take*.

Andrew Ellard@ellardent.bsky.social · last mo.

I know Charlie Higson’s book kinda got there first, but Amazon/Villeneuve would be crazy to miss the chance to start their Bond series with the title On His Majesty’s Secret Service.

Andrew Ellard@ellardent.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Of all #DoctorWho historical papers this is maybe my new favourite curio - Malcolm Hulke’s 1966 pitch for at a new pilot script for the show. This was mooted for radio, potentially to star Bella Lugosi as the Doctor, or later Peter Cushing. (Taken from David Brunt’s Hartnell Production Diary book.)

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Andrew Ellard@ellardent.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Watched Innerspace with a fellow autistic. Now feels like it’s about a neurodiverse man who gains an inner neurotypical voice to guide him. Making him better able to navigate social situations like meetings and romances, read subtexts more clearly, and manage anxiety.

Poster for the movie Innerspace.
Andrew Ellard@ellardent.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I ended up quite taken with The Drama. A sitcom script (not a complaint) shot like a thriller. It read to me as damning of modern America’s cultural failures of empathy, intellect, comprehension and acknowledgement of culpability. YMMV.

Andrew Ellard@ellardent.bsky.social · 4mo ago

❤️ Literally just on the NASA live feed: Artemis II: We can see the moon in one window, the earth in the other. It gives the best sense of the scale and distance yet. I got a photo with my wide angle lens. CAPCOM: Amaze amaze amaze.

RM@dorsalstream.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
Andrew Ellard@ellardent.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’m incredibly keen to have SNL UK succeed, but so far I’ve seen marketing references eel pie and beans on toast. Which is how the UK looks to Americans - an outsider take. Like the US version, to win this needs to feel like the call is coming from inside the house.

Andrew Ellard@ellardent.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Rob Grant. I can’t believe it. All love and respect to his family. Half of the team that showed teenage me how ambitious sitcom storytelling could be - so well that I made it a career. I rewatched Red Dwarf: Terrorform tonight. Because it always felt to me like an especially Robbish episode.

Andrew Ellard@ellardent.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Just remembered how I had Citizen Kane spoiled for me years before I knew it existed by an episode of The Real Ghostbusters that featured a ghost obsessed with recovering his SPOILER.

Andrew Ellard@ellardent.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’ve been itching to tell someone that Predator Badlands and How To Train your Dragon have some serious narrative overlap. Ahem: Predator Badlands and How To Train your Dragon have some serious narrative overlap.