Is 42.6 Years, from the co-writer of “The Menu,” the next “Passengers?” (The script not the movie) Genre: Sci-Fi/Rom-Com Premise: After waking up from a failed experimental lifesaving procedure in which he was cryogenically frozen for 42.6 years, a young man realizes he wants his ex-girlfriend back. He’ll have to overcome the fact that while […]

Genre: Contained Thriller Premise: A young diver heads deep into the ocean to try and retrieve his diver-father’s remains but in the process gets swallowed up by a whale and has the time it takes for his air to run out (roughly 2 hours) to escape. About: The rights to this novel sold to Imagine […]

Today’s script uses one of my favorite framing devices in all of screenwriting. Oh, and Andrew Kevin Walker is back! Genre: Drama/Thriller Premise: After one of the world’s best assassins fails to kill his latest target, he must endure the devastating repercussions from his handlers… unless he fights back. About: It’s finally here! This was […]

It’s been many moons since I’ve last been enamored by a script. Or a movie, for that matter. It’s led me to question what the issue is. Is it everybody else?  Do people simply not know how to write anymore? Or is it me? Have my standards become too high? I’ll tell you what I’m […]

Genre: Holiday/Horror Premise: A family’s Christmas dinner goes awry when a xenomorphic demon starts to duplicate and imitate each member of the family. What does it want? To show them their greatest fears. About: This script made it onto last year’s Black List. The writer wrote ten episodes of the Black-ish spinoff, Grown-ish. Writer: Kyle […]