Since this is a sequel I'd definitely say the "everybody getting wasted" trope takes a backseat to the characters in this one. It's mostly about them trying to avoid the binge holiday and getting sucked into random shenanigans. But it's definitely a broad teen comedy.

Sure! If you like r-rated stoner comedies that have killer owls and grandmas on cocaine.

Hopefully a Binge 3! But I think realistically the Dennis Rodman project would be up next. I have a few other things in the works but I find it’s always best to have 30 things going because 29 will fall apart somewhere along the way.

He was so hilarious. He was there the entire shoot so I spent the most time with him. So much incredible improv and riffing and we used probably 90% of it. His first day on set he needed to have this broken leg from falling off a roof. We could never quite get it to look as absurd as we wanted it to. So nick, the wardrobe designer and me got a plunger and some pipe fitting and made a leg that we could fully crank in a 360. It looks insane but Nick made it work and I feel like only he could have pulled that off.

I just wrote a long response to this and I don't think it went through! Which brings me to my first piece of advice, always SAVE. I gave some damn good advice too.

Basically what I said was that it's most important to FINISH your script. I talk to so many aspiring writers that have an idea, or have an outline or 20 pages of a script. It's so important to just finish so you can see it as a whole and then go back and revise.

And never be too precious because the script will get noted up by producers, studio, directors, actors! It is an ever evolving thing! It's going to change from your original draft. Or maybe I'm just a terrible screenwriter, jury is still out on that one.

All through social media. I would tweet full scripts out and put them on Reddit. Scripts that had IP that I didn't own. I knew I could never get them made but they would get attention.

I started this website www.WeekendScripts.com where I would take a news story like the Fyre Festival and write a full script in a weekend and people would be so stunned that there was already a movie script about a news story that came out a few days before that it would go viral. Wasn't necessarily that good but it was fast!

Once I had a few viral scripts, I got an agent and then started writing originals like "The Binge"

Incredible! A very surreal experience to get to work with someone you've been watching and been a fan of for so long. She was insanely funny and made the character infinitely funnier than it was in the script.

This movie is a sequel to 2019's "The Binge." With that one, I wrote the script on spec for free and sent it around to a bunch of producers. And nobody cared for a very long time! Eventually this newer production company American High had optioned it and sent it to Hulu and they decided to make it. With the sequel I wrote out a couple ideas for what I thought it could be and they picked The Christmas one!

For me the most helpful thing I learned was to give every character “a thing”, some very specific trait. Whether they are very into board games, or just found out their 23 and me details and are trying out a bunch of new accents. This helps guide each character to feel unique and individual whereas a lot of scripts you can take the names off and you’d have no clue which person is talking because they are all similar. And in the final draft you might dial it back but it’s good during the writing process to have a guiding light for each character.

Aside from getting to see something I wrote actually get made which was incredible. I would say the best part was working with so many hilarious people and just watching them riff and improv. Getting to be around the funniest people in the world for 3 months is an unforgettable experience.