Genre: Horror/Adventure Premise: A former Hawaiian warrior turned werewolf is recruited to join a mysterious pack of werewolves. About: It appears that Aaron Guzikowski really likes wolves. He created the show, Raised by Wolves. And it turns out, during the planned Monsterverse slate of horror movies, he wrote a draft of The Wolfman. Afterwards, Ryan […]

Today, instead of writing about scripts from Black List’s pasts, I write about a Black List script… from the fuuuuuuutttttuuurrrrrrrre. Genre: Biopic Premise: The story of how independent right-wing media helped Donald Trump win the presidency. About: Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum have been on a tear lately, landing every writing job in town. […]

Every Monday in October I’ll be reviewing a classic horror film! Genre: Horror Premise: After recovering from his friend being killed by a wolf, an American traveling in England heads back to his nurse’s London home, where he begins to suspect that he’s a werewolf. About: The famous wolf transformation scene in this movie was […]

The newsletter just hit your Inboxes! We have plenty of fun in store for you this month, including, wait, an IMPRESSIVE script review??? I thought you didn’t give those out anymore, Carson. Well surprise surprise. I guess I do. And it happens to be from two of the best screenwriters in Hollywood who inexplicably teamed […]

I continue to work hard on the Scriptshadow Dialogue Book. One of the most time-consuming parts of the process has been cross-checking all the tips against my favorite movies. I’ll watch a favorite movie and, with each scene, make sure that the dialogue being spoken doesn’t contradict anything I’m saying in my book. For the […]