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Max Folkman
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Writer, Director w/ @nickfolkman.bsky.social • Now: Senior Writer @ Riot Games • Prev: Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank, Miles Morales, MASSIVE CHALICE • voice on @scriptlock.bsky.social • Rep: Rain Management
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maxfolkman.bsky.social
We’ll take’em! 🫴🏻
October 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
maxfolkman.bsky.social
I’m so glad I saw this thread today. One if your best works, Kate
October 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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lmichet.bsky.social
Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!
October 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
maxfolkman.bsky.social
FREAKON TOMORROW, FREAKS! Come see our talk that we’ll NEVER speak of AGAIN! Don’t even ask!!!
October 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
maxfolkman.bsky.social
Crossing my fingers! Gonna hang out no matter what
September 24, 2025 at 5:14 AM
maxfolkman.bsky.social
A puppet holds a megaphone and announces “attention, freaks. It’s me.”
September 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards."

www.wired.com/story/uncann...
September 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
maxfolkman.bsky.social
RIP sweet prince. May you sploot forever more in the giant cardboard box in the sky 🫡
metrokitty.bsky.social Cathy Leamy @metrokitty.bsky.social · Sep 6
Aw man, no, RIP Maru the cat. That little man brought so much joy to my life for years and years. ❤️ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maru_(c...
Maru (cat) - Wikipedia
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September 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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rsbenedict.bsky.social
Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
oldmanweldon.bsky.social Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · Aug 7
Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to
Warner Bros. has said The Hunt for Gollum is in fact the first of two new Lord of the Rings feature films from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as the company aims to make more of the franchise. With The Hunt for Gollum, we’ll get to see what Gollum was up to in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
August 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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megannicolett.bsky.social
working on something a little different than usual! looking to speak with women of all ages and backgrounds about their life experiences. short questionnaire here, shares very welcome docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Questionnaire
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August 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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kalebhorton.bsky.social
Need to cheer myself up so here's the best Twitter post ever. It spawned one billion bad ripoffs but it's a beautiful magic trick. You don't just read it in his voice: he said it now. This quote is real.
January 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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hulkhoquinn.bsky.social
Needed this reminder today.
Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government” “If you die, you let them off the hook.”
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
maxfolkman.bsky.social
a man wearing glasses and a tuxedo is sitting in a crowd
Alt: a man wearing glasses and a tuxedo is sitting in a crowd and points at the camera knowingly
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June 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
maxfolkman.bsky.social
Hmmm both of these lists are making me feel like you might like Soderbergh’s Solaris
June 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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lbyock.bsky.social
Oh no what if they turn this insanely popular young progressive into a national figure, anything but that
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Jun 25
Via Maggie Haberman: "Allies of President Trump are already gearing up to turn Mamdani into a national figure to attack and tether to other Democrats ahead of the midterms."
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Live Updates: Mamdani Holds Lead Over Cuomo in Democratic Primary for N.Y.C. Mayor
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
maxfolkman.bsky.social
Aaaahhhhhhhhhhh
Spidey clutching his head saying OMG
June 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...
Gilroy: You could say: Why has Hollywood for the last 100 years been progressive or been liberal? I think it’s much larger. I’ll go further and say: Why does almost all literature, why does almost all art that involves humans trend progressive? Let’s stick with Hollywood. Making a living as an actor or as a writer or a director — without the higher degree of empathy that you have, the more aware you are of behavior and all kinds of behavior, the better you’re going to be at your job. We feed our families by being in an empathy business. It’s just baked in. You’re trying to pretend to be other people. The whole job is to pretend to be other, and what is it like to look from this? People may be less successful over time at portraying Nazis as humans, and that may be good writing or bad writing, and there may be people that have an ax to grind. But in general, empathy is how I feed my family. And the more finely tuned that is, the better I am at my job. That is what actors do: I’m going on Broadway, I’m playing a villain for six months. I got to live in that. I’m playing the slave, I’m playing the fisherman, I’m playing the nurse, I’m the murderer — you have to get in there. You have to live lives through other people. I think that the simple act of that transformation and that process automatically gives you what I would describe as a more generous and progressive point of view. It just has to. And I don’t see how you can buy, if you’re going to reissue the Hardy Boys or try to twist a knot and say that Melville or the Coen brothers made a piece of right-wing art because you see something in there — I think it really misses the larger point of the struggle that that movement is going to be up against. Does that make any sense to you?
June 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
maxfolkman.bsky.social
Looks so good, Eka!!!
June 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
maxfolkman.bsky.social
How dare Nintendo put in a great lil slow jam for when you set up the Switch 2, and yet still deny us eShop music
June 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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scriptlock.bsky.social
Hello hello! We're back with @blendogames.bsky.social & @lmichet.bsky.social this week to talk earnestness in storytelling, working w/ external writers, when to overexplain things, deranged subreddits, and in this clip, making a comedic immersive sim! scriptlock.simplecast.com/episodes/bre...
May 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
maxfolkman.bsky.social
I’m always recommending it! And I love how the season 2 score isn’t just a retread of the first one
May 26, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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glennyrodge.bsky.social
I saw the Curious Case of Benjamin Button again last night. Never gets old.
May 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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May 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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joshgondelman.bsky.social
I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.
May 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
maxfolkman.bsky.social
Is that frog hand embroidered? 😮 or is it available anywhere?
May 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM