If you’ve been hanging around the site this week, you’ve been hearing of “The Blood List,” an informal list of the best horror scripts of the year. Last year’s was posted, and this year’s has just been released. So, what’s on the list? Download it yourself and see, although I think a fault of the [...]
Genre: Horror Premise: A young priest who does not believe in the Devil travels to Rome to study at an Exorcism School. About: Oh yeah baby. It’s Halloween Week! Why the hell was I thinking of reviewing Wanderlust on Halloween Week? Instead I’ve decided to review a more appropriate script, The Rite. The Rite will [...]
Genre: Indie DramaPremise: A man must deal with day to day life while fighting his crippling sex addiction. About: This is the next project for rising star Michael Fassbender, who was said to have had the inside track to star in the new Total Recall remake, although now that role looks to have gone to [...]
Genre: HorrorPremise: A group of 20-something’s find themselves out in the middle of the forest with dead bodies everywhere and no memory of how they got there. About: This a script from the ’0-SIX Black List. It received SIX votes. And today is the twenty-SIXTH. Get it? 666. Hey, Halloween’s coming up. Work with me. [...]
Our good friend Roger is taking the day off to catch up on some writing. That means I’ll be doing five full reviews this week. Where do I find the time? On the docket we have a couple comedies, a little sex, some horror, and….an impressive script! Been awhile huh? And it’s a spec sale [...]
COMMUNITY I love this show. I keep going back and forth between this and Modern Family as the best sitcom. Both have managed to make shows like The Office feel archaic in their execution. However this week’s episode was a little too much for me. The best and worst thing about Community is how ambitious [...]
Genre: Sci-FiPremise: When terrorists detonate the biggest bomb ever built, a group of survivors find themselves in an impossible-to-imagine scenario. About: This spec was just purchased by Warner Brothers, whose unexpected buying spree continues. The writer, Gregg Hurwitz, is first and foremost a novelist, who’s written a couple of novels that have been optioned, including [...]
Genre: Indie Drama/Dark ComedyPremise: A woman is forced to help her aging “ladies man” father get his life back together after a drunk-driving arrest. About: Buttercup will be directed by Niki Caro, the writer-director of one of my favorite movies from 2002, Whale Rider. It is written by newcomer Alice O’Neil, of whom this will [...]
Genre: ThrillerPremise: Two war veterans play a deadly game of cat and mouse up in the mountain wilderness.About: This is the project John McTiernan, director of Die Hard and Predator, signed onto right before he started his year stint in jail for lying to the Feds over wiretapping. The script has actually been around for [...]
Genre: Action/Hesit/ComedyPremise: (from IMDB) When a group of hard working guys find out they’ve fallen victim to a wealthy business man’s Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence. About: While I’m not exactly sure what happened here, it appears that this script used to be about some guys ripping off Trump in Trump [...]
Man, to prove how ignorant I am about comic books, I have no idea what the difference is between Green Arrow, Green Hornet, and Green Lantern. There was a time when I believed they were all the same character. And I’m still not sure that they aren’t. All I can tell you is that, of [...]
The other day I posted my “favorite books” list and in the comments section a few people mentioned Tales From The Script as a must read. Hey, if you were laying down a challenge, why didn’t you just say so? Actually, I’ve heard about “Tales” from a handful of writers over the years and your [...]
This is Nolan Theme Week, where we’ll be breaking down Christopher Nolan’s five most popular writing-directing efforts in hopes of learning something about how he crafts a story. Monday Roger reviewed The Dark Knight. Tuesday I took on Batman Begins. Wednesday was The Prestige, which surprisingly has garnered some of the more heated talkback, Thursday [...]
This is Nolan Theme Week, where we’ll be breaking down Christopher Nolan’s five most popular writing-directing efforts in hopes of learning something about how he crafts a story. Monday Roger reviewed The Dark Knight. Tuesday I took on Batman Begins. Yesterday was The Prestige, which surprisingly has garnered some of the more heated talkback, and [...]
This is Nolan Theme Week, where we’ll be breaking down Christopher Nolan’s five most popular writing-directing efforts in hopes of learning something about how he crafts a story. Monday Roger reviewed The Dark Knight. Yesterday I took on Batman Begins. Today, I review The Prestige. Genre: Period/Drama/SupernaturalPremise: Two obsessed magicians engage in a dangerous rivalry. [...]
This is Nolan Theme Week, where we’ll be breaking down Christopher Nolan’s five most popular writing-directing efforts in hopes of learning something about how he crafts a story. Yesterday Roger reviewed The Dark Knight. Today, I review its prequel, Batman Begins. Genre: Crime/SuperheroPremise: Tiring of the way his city has catered to crime, billionaire Bruce [...]
It’s Nolan Theme Week here at Scriptshadow and while I know some of you will bicker about the interruption of our stream of unproduced screenplay reviews, if you’re a Nolan fan, you should enjoy the change of pace. You see, I’ve been wanting to break down Christopher Nolan’s films for awhile now. The man is [...]
Genre: Crime/Drama/Superhero Movie Premise: Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent are forced to deal with the chaos unleashed by an anarchist mastermind known only as the Joker, as it drives each of them to their limits. About: Sequel to Warner Bros. and Nolan’s Batman Begins. Starred Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman, and Heath [...]
MODERN FAMILYModern Family somehow took a premise that was getting tired fast – the mockumentary sitcom – and made it fresh again, by having the cameras document a family. To be honest, I thought this season’s premiere episode kinda sucked. It felt like the cast was trying too hard to live up to last season’s [...]
Hey guys. I hope you’ve enjoyed this week’s “News From Around The Web” posts, because after a week of doing them, I realize there’s no way I can keep them up. They’re waaaay more time consuming than you’d think. But fear not, I’m not eliminating them altogether. I’m going back to the old format and [...]
