Genre: DramaPremise: A screwed up cross-dresser’s private life is thrown into disarray when a train accident sends a caboose into his/her back yard.About: To star Cillian Murphy and Ellen Paige, this 2005 script finished very high on that year’s Black List. Although it was the 2005 script that landed on the Black List, I read [...]
Here I am, back to making these darn lists. Believe me, I’m trying my hardest to be more disorganized. If you have questions or comments about any of these, e-mail me at Carsonreeves1@gmail.com. Thanks! 1) Script Analysis - A lot of you have been asking me if I’ll read your scripts and as much as [...]
Genre: Legal/Action/DramaPremise: (revealed in the review)About: Original draft written by hotshot Kurt Wimmer. Current draft written by screenwriting God Frank Darabont. This project made headlines late last year when Darabont dropped out of directing duties. I’d tell you who replaced him and who’s starring in it, but I don’t want to taint your reading experience [...]
A little Thursday afternoon treat for you guys. Not all of us are millionaires and have 500 bucks to go see the new Star Trek movie. So why not read a few scripts this weekend instead? If you liked Tarson’s take on “Kristy”, you may enjoy the rest of his Top 10 scripts, which I’ve [...]
: Paper Wings [ ] trash[x] barely kept my interest[ ] worth the read[ ] impressive[ ] genius What I learned: I’m not saying everything has to be a soap opera, but if you avoid every opportunity to add conflict to your story, your audience is going to get bored really fast. Put your characters [...]
Genre: ComedyPremise: A college-aged kid becomes his father’s boss.About: Lord and Cohen sold this to Disney two weeks ago for an undisclosed amount of moola. Scott Rudin will produce. Lord was a co-producer on “The Heartbreak Kid”, which, btw, I thought was hilarious.Writers: Tony Lord & David Cohen Harvey Hutchinson has been working at the [...]
It’s taken, what, a month? But I’ve finally read a script that will break into my Top 25. Very excited to tell you guys about this one! Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait until Friday to find out which script it is. Sorry! I know. I’m terrible. :)
Sorry my friends but I’m taking the day off. Not to worry though. As promised, I’ve brought in an expert to give you a long-awaited horror review. His name is Tarson Meads and I trust his opinion implicitly. Today he’ll be reviewing a recent horror spec that sold titled “Kristy.” Genre: Horror/ThrillerPremise: In the vein [...]
Genre: DramaPremise: A civilian who wins the chance to join a NASA shuttle flight finds himself adrift in space when the rest of the crew dies. About: Orbit is being produced by Fox 2000 with Thomas Bezucha (The Family Stone) to direct. It is adapted from the John Nance novel of the same name and [...]
So I was sitting there watching a certain basketball team choke in the most important game it’s played in 15 years when I received a text. It was scrambled and coded in a strange text-language that I’ve never seen before. After reading through it a few times, I realized it was a text from The [...]
Welcome to the first ever Scriptshadow Interview. I want to apologize in advance for how lame my questions are. See, I only asked Geoff things that I wanted to know. So you may or may not get anything out of this. But the good news is, there’s a link to a more helpful interview at [...]
Staying true to my “Weekdays will be predictable but weekends, anything can happen” mantra, tomorrow will be the first ever Scriptshadow interview. It will be with someone off my Top 10 list so I hope you can come by and take a look. It will be especially informative for you writers trying to break into [...]
Genre: ActionPremise: The Dirty Dozen in medieval times.About: This sold to New Regency for 800k against 1.6m in March of this year. McG is attached as director.Writers: Mike Finch and Alex Litvak edit: I just wanted to APOLOGIZE to Scott and you guys. This is what happens when you read a script at 4 in [...]
