Franklin Leonard

16 Oscar nominations later… open.substack.com/pub/franklin...

Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.

Andrew Cuomo announcing his independent campaign on Twitter and immediately getting murderously ratioed by Mamdani's fundraising link response to the tweet is absolute comedy hours. Never seen anything like it.

So it turns out that our authoritarians are very bad at authoritarian pageantry.

Oops we did it again.

If you’re in Los Angeles on February 17, come through. If you know someone who will be in Los Angeles and enjoy being around other writers, tell them to come through.

I was wrong, and I apologize. It more then tripled Melania’s windfall. My bad.

The real box office story of the weekend is the self distributed and self financed horror film that more than doubled Melania’s windfall despite a production budget less than one fifteenth its size.

Alex Pretti was a 37 year old ICU nurse who put his body between ICE and a woman they were physically assaulting. They sprayed chemical irritants into his face, beat him, and then shot him to death.

Congratulations to everybody getting off their first “it could have been me” tweets today.

37 year old white male citizen with a lawful permit to carry a firearm, says the Minneapolis Police Department.

If you’re gonna run around on the internet talking about Oscar snubs, you have to say who you’d swap out. Those are the rules. We live in a society (barely.)

Anyway…

I wrote a sequel, if only because I find the irony hilarious. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...