Genre: Teen HorrorSynopsis: A high school cheerleader becomes a flesh-eating spawn of the devil.About: This is the much talked about follow-up to Diablo Cody’s Oscar winning screenplay, Juno. Megan Fox to star. Coming out in September of this year.Writer: Diablo Cody Diablo’s Body There’s a real temptation here to tear this to pieces. There’s a [...]
It happened. I don’t know how it happened but it happened. Everybody brace yourselves. There’s no easy way to say this………………… I joined Twitter. I have been avoiding this for about four years now. I am a techy guy. I love technology. I once took apart my entire laptop and put it back together without [...]
Tomorrow (Thursday) I’ll be reviewing Diablo Cody’s second script, Jennifer’s Body, so all you Diablo lovers/haters get here early and throw down some comment gauntelets as I expect Fox Atomic to cause a stink and possibly force the review off the internets. I will try and stand strong though because there’s nothing I love more [...]
Genre: Romantic ComedySynopsis: A suburban couple give each other permission to sleep with someone else.About: Karen McCullah Lutz is the writer of Legally Blonde and Bride Wars. Permission was sold to CBS Films.Writer: Karen McCullah Lutz It’s an interesting and intriguing idea for a movie. There was the famous (or infamous) Robert Redford/Woody Harrelson film [...]
Genre: Sci-Fi ThrillaSynopsis: A sci-fi Bourne Identity, Broken Amber is about a man who realizes that his life isn’t what it seems.About: A spec that I believe came extremely close to being purchased by Warner Bros. Can anyone confirm or deny this?More: I’m keeping the synopsis vague as it kinda spoiled the script for me. [...]
Genre: Adventure-ComedySynopsis: A Goonies-like gang grows up and decides to go on one last adventure.About: The Treehouse Gang sold for 750k against 1.5 million.Writer: Timothy Dowling Timothy Dowling is a writer/actor who came up with the idea for the then brilliant concept, “George Lucas In Love.” He also wrote the recent box office mini-hit “Role [...]
I think I’m going to start out this week with one of our reader’s suggestions: The Treehouse Gang. This is a script that sold last year for a ton of money described as: What if the Goonies grew up and went on another adventure? Very cool premise. And since the writer wrote one of my [...]
Genre: Action ThrillerSynopsis: A plane cannot drop below 8000 feet or everybody on board dies.About: Not every script gets sold. But that doesn’t mean you won’t make some money off your newly minted spec. Altitude, by Michael Palmer, got him enough recognition that he was broght in by fox to pitch his idea on Hitman [...]
For those interested, my favorite script of February, Mike Judge’s Extract (review here), just got itself a trailer. Go check it out and let me know what you think. I’m posting this without having even watched it so I have no idea if it’s any good. Although with Mike Judge, how can you go wrong, [...]
I used my internet prowess to cache back the original State of Play review so I could copy-paste then re-post it. Took down the poster and the script link so I don’t think there’s anything illegal going on here. Enjoy. :)
Genre: Political ThrillerSynopsis: A team of investigative reporters work alongside a police detective to try to solve the murder of a congressman’s mistressAbout: Hitting theaters a week from Friday and landing on the 2007 Blacklist as the number 2 most popular script.Writer: Matthew Michael Carnahan – Revisions by Billy Ray, Tony Gilroy, and Peter Morgan. [...]
Well karma comes back to bite you in the ass, huh? The State of Play script review I posted today was taken down by Blogger because of a Universal legal threat. It’s not clear to me if it’s because I posted the review, used a picture of the poster, or posted the script. What pisses [...]
Genre: Rom-Com (but not the gay kind where Hugh Grant is involved – wait a minute, I like Hugh Grant. Good lord, what’s wrong with me?)Synopsis: Best friends since grade school Max and Sophie move in together….and start cuddling!About: This one generated a lot of heat when it first went out but ultimately failed to [...]
Okay so last week got a little crazy with the Inception April Fool’s Day joke and I apologize to anyone who was offended (not really though). But my little made-up plot was good enough to convince a few people (Hey, it was a pretty fucking cool idea. I’d see that movie). They even had a [...]
Genre: Sci-Fi ActionSynopsis: Aliens take over Los Angeles. We try to take it back. I think.About: This is being made into a movie to star Aaron Eckhart and directed by the guy who directed Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.Writer: Chris Bertolini The original Battle of Los Angeles took place in 1945 right here where I [...]
Genre: Light sci-fi/Romantic ComedySynopsis: What if, on the verge of getting married, you learned that your soul mate was someone else?About: This spec just sold to Dreamworks earlier in the week.Writer: Chris McCoy Hot off the presses is the recently sold spec script “Good Looking”. Good Looking is about a dating service in the near [...]
Those paying attention will already know that my script of the month is Tenure. There isn’t much more I can say about it other than that I loved it from top to bottom. At its heart, it’s the most basic, most tried-and-true genre of them all: the underdog story. And who doesn’t like a good [...]
Okay, this probably went WAY over some of your heads. But “Inception”, the script review I posted yesterday, is currently the Holy Grail of scripts. It’s impossible to get. As of this moment, there’s only one copy, and it’s on Christopher Nolan’s computer. Or more likely printed out and kept in a safe. So the [...]
Genre: Action-ComedySynopsis: An Alias-like agent must fill her soon-to-be-fiance in on what she really does.About: This script made the rounds recently and everyone and their mother seemed to love it.Writer: Kyle Long Either this is a clever mix of several popular TV shows/movies or a completely derivative ripoff of them. Breach and Clear is basically [...]
First of all, I would like to apologize to Warner Brothers. What I did by posting key plot points of their property, Inception, was stupid at best and financially crippling at worst. I apologize to Christopher Nolan, as well as Kevin J. Anderson, who is the owner of the unpublished source material. I promise, from [...]
