You know, it’s harder giving interviews than you think! It’s hard to come up with unique questions and such. So I decided to mix it up a little bit with today’s guest and ask some questions that usually don’t get asked. Hopefully you enjoy it. John Swetnam’s name might sound familiar to you. He’s the [...]
Okay, so for the last few days I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out ways to find a few more gems, find a few more Disciple Programs. So I came up with an idea. This Sunday, between 12:00 pm and 12:15 pm Pacific time, any writer who’s made less than 10k through screenwriting [...]
A last second change brings us a guest review of a 2010 Black List script about teenage girls exploring their sexuality. Enjoy! Ha, you guys thought I was going to post a review of one script, but I did a switcheroo on you and now I’m posting another! Don’t ever try and predict the Scriptshadow. [...]
A fellow screenwriter who burst out of nowhere with a 750k sale returns with his newest spec, which sold last month. Genre: Crime/Drama/ThrillerPremise: A washed up hitman is pulled back into the game when his estranged son accidentally gets tangled up in a bad situation with his former employer.About: Brad Ingelsby jumped onto the scene [...]
Hollywood Reader reading a non-dramatized script. I can’t take it any longer. I can’t take reading all these scenes that are so…….BAD! Scenes that just sit there. Scenes where nothing happens. Scenes where characters babble. Scenes that only dole out exposition. Scenes without conflict. Scenes without DRAMA! Ah-ha! There’s the root of our problem! No [...]
Another Black List sci-fi thriller makes it way to Scriptshadow. But how does the screenplay hold up to other recent sci-fi thrillers on the site? Genre: Sci-FiPremise: (from Black List) An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man [...]
An old friend drops by Scriptshadow to review a screenplay from one of the biggest writers in the world, Cormac McCarthy! Carson here. Lots of interest in today’s script. I was going to review it but I know next to nothing about Cormac McCarthy. I knew if I was going to do this right, I [...]
One of the most successful Nicholl Fellowship winners in history hits Hollywood with his brand new Yeti spec. Genre: HorrorPremise: Sent to a remote arctic outpost during World War 2, a disgraced soldier learns of a giant flesh-eating beast killing the locals, and decides that defeating the monster is his one shot at redemption. About: [...]
My pick for who plays the lead in…The Disciple Program. Leo’s people, are you listening? In six days, everything changes. That’s because for the first time in Scriptshadow’s history, an amateur screenplay will make the Top 10. I’ve been waiting for this moment for a LOOOONG time. Now I won’t be able to post the [...]
Today’s amateur screenplay offers us the rare combination of Nazis and children’s books. Can these two elements coexist? Read on to find out. Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send it in PDF form, along with your title, genre, logline, and why I should read your script to Carsonreeves3@gmail.com. [...]
Longtime Scriptshadow reader Timothy Mannion rolls onto the scene with his first produced screenwriting credit, Brake. Hello my friends. Today’s name might be familiar to you longtime Scriptshadow readers. Timothy Mannion entered my logline contest way back in the day and finished near the top with this very logline! He since went on to [...]
Red-hot screenwriter Aron Eli Coleite bursts into the Top 10 of 2011′s Black List with his end-of-the-world screenplay, “The End.” Genre: Drama/Sci-fi/ApocalypsePremise: (from Black List) Four people – a veteran broadcaster in London, a sixteen year old girl and her best friend in Ann Arbor, and a devoted family man in Shanghai – each try [...]
Guest screenplay reviewer Amy Suto buys a box of chocolates in preparation for today’s 2009 Black List script and recent Sundance purchase, Celeste and Jesse Forever. Hey everybody. As I continue to close in on the book release and re-launch of the site, I once again turn to Scriptshadow readers to help me meet my [...]
Screenwriters everywhere beware. You will not be the same after this review. That’s because this screenplay is…well, I’ll just come out and say it. It’s puppet noir. Genre: Puppet NoirPremise: When a serial killer starts murdering the cast of a once-famous puppet show called The Happytime Gang, two detectives, one a man, one a puppet, [...]
Amateur screenwriter Nicole Avenia takes on one of my favorite genres. Does she have the screenwriting chops to pull it off? Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send it in PDF form, along with your title, genre, logline, and why I should read your script to Carsonreeves3@gmail.com. Keep in [...]
Writer of one of my Top 25 favorite screenplays takes a few moments to share his experiences with Scriptshadow Nation. Brian Duffield shot onto the scene with his Black List script, “Your Bridesmaid Is A Bitch,” about a young man who must endure a wedding weekend around his ex-girlfriend, who he’s still trying to get [...]
Today’s screenplay tackles that age-old screenwriting question: How does an alien spy save planet earth? Genre: Sci-FiPremise: Behind the scenes of a modern day earth, the leaders of the world learn that a faraway civilization is planning to wipe them out. So they send in a spy – one of the aliens who came to [...]
Guest reviewer Andrew Page gets a chance to review a screenplay about one of his idols, Jimi Hendrix. Hello all. As I work tirelessly around the clock to bring you some fun Scriptshadow changes in the coming months, I’ll be depending on longtime Scriptshadow readers to fill in with the occasional guest review. Today, I [...]
Today’s screenplay probably won’t win the Nicholl anytime soon, but it might just win your death from laughing so hard. Genre: ComedyPremise: An angry bitter 30-something finds a loophole in the National Spelling Bee rules which allows him to join the competition. About: Bad Words made the 2011 Black List, finishing near the middle of [...]
