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These days it seems like everyone’s talking about the end of the world, so naturally the subject is a ripe arena for storytelling. Presented by WGAW’s Genre Committee, this Guild panel will engage with writers of film and television projects which explore jarring and often horrifying topics like alien invasion, viral outbreaks, zombies, nuclear wars, robot mutinies, monsters, and environmental and space-based disasters. We’ll discuss why audiences are compelled to consume this type of content, what the market looks like for pitching and selling, and how stories about the end of the world shape culture and society. And when our conversation has met its untimely end, we hope writers will come away with a better understanding of what it takes to create these exciting and memorable stories.

Panelists include writers Andy Bobrow (Last Man on Earth), Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds), Angela Kang (The Walking Dead) and Michael Tolkin (Deep Impact, The Rapture), as well as University of Chicago professors James Evans and Daniel Holz, authors of the recent New Yorker think piece, “Are We Doomed?;” moderator: Aaron Wiener (Resident Alien).