Because my original Aliens post is still somewhere in Blogger’s belly, I’m reposting it until they belch it back up. Unfortunately, that means that the previous comments won’t show up here, and any new comments you post won’t show up when I bring back the original post. But for reading purposes, here you go. :) [...]
Because my original Aliens post is still somewhere in Blogger’s belly, I’m reposting it until they belch it back up. Unfortunately, that means that the previous comments won’t show up here, and any new comments you post won’t show up when I bring back the original post. But for reading purposes, here you go. :) [...]
Note: Apparently Blogger’s gone nuts. They’re supposed to have things figured out soon (or so they say) but until then, yesterday’s Aliens post will remain an enigma. Which begs the question: Did it really happen? Did it? Genre: ThrillerPremise: Days away from his execution, the most notorious man in America awakens with amnesia and [...]
Genre: Drama/ComedyPremise: After a cruel heartless efficiency expert gets fired, he meets a strange 16 year old girl who unexpectedly helps him turn his life around. About: The writer of today’s script is the same writer of the recently sold (and in production) Seeking A Friend At The End Of The World, which I loved. [...]
So the other day I was thinking about my Top 25, and I realized something. Many of the scripts in my Top 10 were scripts I’d read a thousand scripts ago. I was holding onto them mainly because they were already in the Top 10, and I was too much of a wimp to place [...]
Genre: ActionPremise: A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.About: Abduction represents that golden screenwriting ticket. A true spec sale that, right after selling, goes racing into production. We should all be so lucky. Former (and current?) rocker Shawn Christensen wrote [...]
A quick note to drop by this Wednesday as I’ll be posting a review for the first script to break into my Top 10 in over a year! Genre: Crime/Caper/ComedyPremise: An art curator enlists the services of a Texas chicken farmer to con a wealthy collector into buying a phony Monet painting.About: They’ve been trying [...]
Genre: ComedyPremise: After receiving panicked messages from a girl he’s been Facebook-stalking, a meek agoraphobe wrangles together his closest internet friends and journeys into the real world to find her.About: Every Friday, I review a script from the readers of the site. If you’re interested in submitting your script for an Amateur Review, send it [...]
The word “rules” stirs up a lot of debate in the University of Screenwriting. Some believe there should be no rules when you write. Others believe rules are the lifeblood of a screenplay. I fall somewhere in between. You definitely need to know the rules. Whether you choose to use them, however, is up to [...]
Genre: Family/FantasyPremise: 13 year old aspiring inventor Andrew Henry begins to suspect that the world he lives in is not what it seems. About: Didn’t research this until after I wrote the review, but it appears that Andrew Henry’s Meadow is a well-known children’s book, which would make this an adaptation, not a spec script, [...]
Genre: TV pilot – police procedural/fantasyPremise: In a modern day San Francisco-like city where the laws of physics are superseded by hard magic, the deputy mayor’s right hand man is murdered, leaving some to suspect he is responsible. About: Writer and show-runner Ronald D. Moore went to Cornell but failed out when he was a [...]
Happy they finally got to Osama. But man is this burying him out in the sea less than 24 hours later going to feed the hell out of conspiracy theorists for the next 50 years. Genre: ComedyPremise: A Bob Ross-esque PBS painting show host must fight for his career when his station brings in a [...]
