Kailey Marsh’s Blood List 2012 is out. And guess who’s at the top of the list! Go Tyler Marceca and Disciple Program!!! If you have any of these scripts, send them my way. :) “The Disciple Program” by Tyler Marceca 25 Votes Logline: A “Manchurian Candidate”-style thriller in which a man’s wife dies and upon [...]
Taking a break from Amateur Week because it’s HALLLOOOOWEEEEEEN and that means Scriptshadow must be spoooooooooky for 24 hours and that means a horror script review but since I don’t have any good horror scripts, I’m reviewing a script that is ABOUT a horror film. Sound fun? I hope so cause I ain’t giving you [...]
Welcome to Amateur Week! All week we’re going to be reviewing scripts from amateur writers that got the best response from this post. Time for you guys to take advantage of the opportunity. Hope we find something great. But even if we don’t, it should be a great week for learning why screenwriting is so hard! [...]
Welcome to Amateur Week! All week we’re going to be reviewing scripts from amateur writers that got the best response from this post. Time for you guys to take advantage of the opportunity. Hope we find something great. But even if we don’t, it should be a great week for learning why screenwriting is so [...]
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 [...]
Those arguing that American Beauty didn’t have a great logline shall rejoice! (Well, not really). Today’s post is going back to that age old nightmare – loglines. When I look through the amateur submissions to see what I’m going to review every Friday, I often find myself saying, “How in the world did this writer [...]
Genre: Period/Crime Premise: In post World War II Japan, an American former prisoner-of-war rises in the yakuza. About: “The Outsider” finished 4th on last year’s Black List. Writer Andrew Baldwin hasn’t done any major work that I’ve heard of up until “Outsider,” but he did script a draft of the in-development remake of “Logan’s Run.” [...]
Genre: Sci-fi Premise: A group of survivors search for answers in an ash-fallen Los Angeles after an alien invasion. About: Ben Magid first gained traction in Hollywood with his dark take on Peter Pan, which reimagined Pan as a serial killer. He sold this script, Invasion, a couple years later to Summit. Writer: Ben Magid [...]
Hey guys. I am currently being held captive in Cambodia by a group of hardcore screenwriting enthusiasts, one of whom wants me to teach him how to write the next “The Adventures Of Pluto Nash.” This is why I’m unable to write today’s review. Assuming that my village cleaning duties are limited to today, I [...]
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 [...]
Hip hip hooray! About a month ago I reviewed a script that went straight to the top of my Top 25 list, Desperate Hours. I since swindled the writer, E. Nicholas Mariani, to join me for lunch, trapping him in a situation where he had no choice but to say yes to an interview. I [...]
Genre: Tarantino Premise: (from IMDB) With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. About: This is the next Quentin Tarantino film, coming out Dec. 25. Django Unchained stars Jaime Foxx as Django, Christoph Waltz as Dr. Schultz, Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, [...]
Genre: DramaPremise: When a large natural gas corporation comes into a small town to buy up its natural gas deposits, a few resistant residents make the reps pursuit a living hell. About: This is the script that Matt Damon and longtime “The Office” co-star, John Krasinski, wrote together. This would be the first script of [...]
Genre: Comedy/HorrorPremise: A college student home for the holidays discovers that an internet porn film turns its viewers into homicidal maniacs. As the epidemic spreads, he has to save his longtime crush while struggling to control his own urges.About: Adam Penn worked as an editor on Nip Tuck and, more recently, American Horror Story. He [...]
Genre: Contained Thriller Premise: (Original Twit-Pitch Logline) After checking into a hotel to escape her abusive husband, a woman realizes guests in the next room are holding a young girl hostage. 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 recently caused a minor fracas by suggesting that screenwriters aren’t “writers,” per se, but rather “storytellers,” and that if you want to become a successful screenwriter, your focus should be on telling stories rather than writing. I’m afraid that some of you took me a little too literally and assumed I meant that there’s [...]
Genre: War/Thriller/ConspiracyPremise: A grizzled contract driver in Iraq stumbles upon a conspiracy to kill a U.S. soldier who holds information regarding a cover-up that threatens an 8 billion dollar corporation. About: This script was one of the five winners of last year’s Nicholl Fellowship! Writer: John MacInnesDetails: 111 pages No brainer: Denzel for Schmidt Usually, [...]
Genre: Sci-fi/ComedyPremise: A hapless and broken hearted barista is visited by two bad-ass soldiers from the future who tell him mankind is doomed, and he alone can save them.About: This script from British writer Howard Overman sold in March of last year and made it onto the middle of the Black List, right next to [...]
Today I’m taking the day off. However, longtime Scriptshadow reader Christian Savage, who often critiques scripts in the comments section better than I do, will be kicking major ass with a review. And what is he reviewing? None other than “The Flight Of The Nez Perce,” from Desperate Hours writer, E. Nicholas Mariani! Yay! Genre: [...]
Genre: Period/Mystery/Thriller Premise: (Original Twit-Pitch Logline) 1867 After losing her father, a woman unwittingly takes a job as a maid at a countryhouse of aristocratic cannibals. 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 was contained [...]
