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 posted. If [...]

So as I was reading Laymen’s Terms earlier this week and going ga-ga over all the great villainy in the script, I realized that I hadn’t yet breached the subject of villains in any extensive way on the site.  And there’s a reason for that.  I hadn’t developed an extensive enough take on the matter! [...]

Genre: Sci-FiPremise: 100 years in the future, artificially intelligent robots begin to rebel, forcing the planet to build a world of generators that fry anything with circuitry, as its the only sure way to eradicate all robotic forces. Little do they know that a group of A.I. robots have escaped to deep space, where they [...]

Genre: PeriodPremise: In a small town during the 1935 dust bowl, a former soldier must protect a fleeing city woman from a group of gangsters who want her dead. About: I don’t know much about the writer, but this script made the Black List in 2008.  People have been describing it as the next Low [...]

Genre: Dark ComedyPremise: When the writer dies, a struggling creative exec changes the name on his screenplay to his own, only to find out that there are others who’ve read the screenplay, others who he must now take care of.About: This script sold all the way back in 1997 and obviously never became a movie [...]

Genre: Sci-Fi/Western Premise: (Original Twit-Pitch Logline) 9 strangers wake in a deserted Mexican town besieged by killing machines: they must discover why they’ve been brought there to survive. About: For those recently joining Scriptshadow, I held a contest a few months back called “Twit-Pitch,” where anyone could pitch me their screenplay on Twitter, as long as it [...]

Genre: DramaPremise: (from IMDB) A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future – until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.About: Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights) had been talking about making this movie for awhile, but backed off it a couple of times [...]

Genre: Horror/ProceduralPremise: An allegedly rehabilitated Dr. Jekyll is pulled out of prison to help hunt a new monster who seems to be using an improved version of the Hyde serum.About: “Hyde” made the 2010 Black List.  While writing Hyde, screenwriter Cole Haddon concurrently wrote the story in graphic novel form for Dark Horse.  That novel [...]

Genre: Dark ThrillerPremise: Often told through the point of view of the killer himself, Psycho Killer is about a serial killer who believes he must kill as many people as possible in order to receive preferred status in Hell.About: Andrew Kevin Walker is, of course, spec sale royalty, as his script “Seven” was one of [...]

Genre: ComedyPremise: A school guidance counselor who dated pop sensation Lake James back in high school, follows her into rehab in hopes of rekindling their romance. About: Writer Sam Laybourne is a producer on the cult comedy hit, Cougar Town (which I admit is actually kind of funny, even if all the characters are written [...]

Genre: Comedy Premise: (Original Twit-Pitch Logline) After winning a nationwide lottery a man must decide what to do with his prize, fifteen minutes of advice to give to his younger self. About: For those recently joining Scriptshadow, I held a contest a few months back called “Twit-Pitch,” where anyone could pitch me their screenplay on Twitter, as [...]

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Desperate Hours.  One of the defining indicators of a great script is that, afterwards, you feel like you’ve already seen the movie.  The writing is so powerful, so descriptive, that all the images are already in your head.  The mobsters coming out of the train with their [...]

Genre: PeriodPremise: A small town crippled by WWI and the Spanish flu finds itself facing major moral questions and a brutal invading force when a young girl shows up on a rancher’s doorstep covered in blood.About: I don’t know much about this project or this writer.  If it’s the same Mariani listed on IMDB, he’s [...]

Genre: ThrillerPremise: A diplomatic courier finds himself in possession of information way above his pay-grade. He will have to race across Europe and get to the U.S. Embassy in Munich if he has any hopes of surviving. About: Warner Brothers bought this spec recently. Writer Lynn seems to love the thriller genre. To date he [...]

**Genius** script review coming later today!!! Holy sh*t.  This script didn’t make one mistake!  AMAZING! Review coming by 1pm Pacific Time.

Genre: DramaPremise: Grief stricken over his wife leaving him, a man finds solace in an odd activity… stealing figurines of flamingos. About: Writer Michael LeSieur is probably best known for writing “Me, You, And Dupree,” back in 2005.  If I remember correctly, that script sold for a boatload of money.  More recently, he’s been focused [...]

(Posted by Sveta) Carson is one magical creature but he can’t do it all himself. So…we’re hiring interns! Do you read Scriptshadow every day? Can you tell what makes a great story?  Do you spend your day hitting refresh on your browser waiting for the next review to be posted?  Do you walk around telling [...]

Genre: Comedy Premise: (Original Twit-Pitch Logline) When the world’s biggest superhero agreed to grant a dying boy’s last wish, he didn’t count on the boy wishing for all his powers. About: For those recently joining Scriptshadow, I held a contest a few months back called “Twit-Pitch,” where anyone could pitch me their screenplay on Twitter, as long [...]

I wanna do what Harvey did for screenwriting in the 90s. Since moving back to LA, I’ve been offering up bite-sized reasons for why I returned, but haven’t really gone into any detail.  Well, it’s time to go into detail.  After the madness that was The Disciple Program, I started getting a lot more e-mails [...]

Genre: Animation/Film NoirPremise: In a futuristic world co-habitated by aliens and humans, the last human private eye is hired to investigate the fidelity of a well-known pop star. About: Ray Gunn is an old project that writer-director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) wrote.  He’s gone on record as saying [...]