Today’s Black List screenplay explores two people falling in love, with one huge problem standing in the way. Genre: Romantic Dramedy (is that a genre?)Premise: An alcoholic falls in love with a woman who doesn’t drink. As their relationship intensifies, he must work harder and harder to keep his secret from her.About: Finished in the [...]
NEW Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send in a PDF of your script, a PDF of the first ten pages of your script, your title, genre, logline, and finally, why I should read your script. Use my submission address please: Carsonreeves3@gmail.com. Your script and “first ten” will be [...]
Okay so a little background on this one. Last week I read this AMAZING screenplay, Saving Mr. Banks, about Walt Disney’s endless journey to convince the author of Mary Poppins to allow him to make a movie out of her famous character. Banks is being developed at Disney with a dream cast rumored, led by [...]
The creator of Mad Men decides to tackle his passion project while on hiatus from the show. Genre: Drama/ComedyPremise: In the vein of Sideways, an alcoholic weatherman and his bi-polar unemployed best friend find out that the friend’s recently deceased father has left him a small fortune. About: Matt Weiner, of Mad Men fame, writes [...]
There may not be any White Houses exploding today as previously planned, but we do get the man who played the part our White House exploding screenplay was inspired after. That’s right – John McClane, aka Bruce Willis, adds another film to his arsenal. Genre: ThrillerPremise: When a fireman witnesses a gang-murder, he must stay [...]
The Black List strikes again with this high-octane sci-fi thriller. But does it have the stamina to make it to the finish line? Genre: Sci-FiPremise: The United States is attacked by an unknown enemy that is vastly superior to them in every military category. Who could it possibly be?About: On A Clear Day finished on [...]
She’s turned a number of your boring loglines into logline tour-de-forces. Now she gets her screenplay reviewed on Scriptshadow! NEW Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send in a PDF of your script, a PDF of the first ten pages of your script, your title, genre, logline, and finally, [...]
Talk about a great opening 10 pages! Okay guys, Twit-Pitch is alive and well. And if you were following my Twitter feed every night, you’d be seeing me analyze the first ten pages of these entries in REAL-TIME. That’s right. I actually tweet what I’m thinking AS I’M THINKING IT. What other contest does that!? [...]
A spoon full of sugar wasn’t needed to make today’s screenplay go down. It looks like we have a new entry into the Top 25! Genre: Drama Premise: The story of how Walt Disney got the rights to Mary Poppins. About: This script finished on last year’s Black List with 13 votes, so somewhere in [...]
Carson here. I’m taking the day off but Roger’s here to pick up the slack, reviewing one of last year’s Nicholl finalists. Just to give you an update, I’ve been reading 2 Twit-Pitches every night and tweeting about them live on my Twitter account. Writers complain that contests are too closed off and they never [...]
Rumors of found footage films being dead are greatly exaggerated. The Line of Sight screenplay proves that they’re alive and well! Genre: Action/Found FootagePremise: The best soldiers in the world, Delta Force Three-One, are called in to save the highest ranking U.S. official left after all of the major U.S. cities are destroyed by a [...]
Knights. Zombies. Guaranteed awesomeness or guaranteed awfulness? Read a script from a very UNIQUE screenwriting team and come to your own conclusion. NEW Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send in a PDF of your script, a PDF of the first ten pages of your script, your title, genre, [...]
This is a very exciting moment for me because I’m interviewing my first OSCAR WINNER. Simon Beaufoy wrote 2008’s Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire. He also wrote The Full Monty and 127 Hours. But the reason I wanted to interview Simon was because of his new film, “Salmon Fishing In The Yemen,” which is a [...]
Oh man, I’m Twit-Pitched out. Last night it all hit me and I just crashed, leaving a ton of work on the table, which I get to make up for today. Yahoo! Luckily, I have my trusted readers to pick me up when I’m down. Today’s review comes courtesy of longtime Scriptshadow reader and former [...]
Note: No review today. For those playing catch-up, Twit-Pitch was a contest I held where anyone could pitch me their screenplay as long as it was contained within a single tweet. These are the Top 100 from a list that included nearly1000. These 100 will send me the first ten pages of their scripts, from [...]
While you may not be able to go back in time and Twit-Pitch a better logline, you can head back in time with today’s screenplay, Safety Not Guaranteed. Genre: Indie-ComedyPremise: Based on a real ad, SNG is about a small-time group of journalists investigating an ad in the classifieds that states – “WANTED: Somebody to [...]
Hey guys. I’m going to do a little shifting around this week. I’m moving my Tuesday review to Wednesday so I can do a full post about Twit-Pitch on Tuesday. I want to answer some questions, explain why I chose the loglines I did, and just shed a little more light on the process. I’ll [...]
Twit-Pitch is now over.Check my Twitter Feed and click “favorites” to see everything I’ve chosen. I won’t have picked everything until tonight though. Feel free to start sharing your favorite Twit-Pitches in the comments. I’ll be choosing the final 5-10 Twit-Pitches based on the loglines you liked best. Update: I have officially chosen 74 tweets [...]
The number one logline from a couple of weeks ago – Breathwork – finally gets its day in the sun with a review. NEW Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send in a PDF of your script, a PDF of the first ten pages of your script, your title, [...]
Update 1 (10:17 a.m. April 1) – Added thoughts about using text-speak.Update 2 (10:45 a.m. April 3) – Added advice about including title. Update 3 (10:37 p.m. April 3) – IMPORTANT – Character count down to 134 characters (not 135). Twit-Pitch. You thought it was dead and buried forever. It wasn’t! It just went through [...]
