Today’s article taught me a tremendous lesson about creating memorable main characters. Genre: Article – Drama/Crime Premise: Covers the unique job of Gary Johnson, a Houston cop who specializes in going undercover as a hit man to entrap murders-for-hire. About: This article, which was written all the way back in 2001, was snatched up by […]

A discussion about the crucial screenwriting skill of mining your concept properly One of the funnier moments in the film Nobody’s shocked that A Haunting in Venice barely scraped up 15 million dollars this weekend. A decade ago, I think that number doubles. But Rian Johnson put his Agatha Christie clone movie on Netflix for […]

We take our amazing logline from yesterday and turn it into a movie! ******** SPECIAL WEEKEND OFFER! HALF-OFF SCRIPT NOTES DEAL! TWO SLOTS OPEN E-MAIL ME ASAP TO GRAB ONE: carsonreeves1@gmail.com ******** Yesterday, I came up with one heck of a cool movie idea. Here’s the preliminary pitch… Title: The Lawless Dozen Genre: Western Logline: […]

Also, Carson offers everyone here a free killer high-concept idea at the end of the review! It’s a good one. And anyone can take it! Genre: Western Premise: After staging his death many years ago, an aging gunslinger is forced to reunite with his outlaw daughter during the dying days of the west. About: Remember, […]

This juicy high-concept show starring Mahershala Ali will be Hulu’s next big buzzy “whodunnit.” Genre: Thriller/Mystery Premise: A once successful author does the unthinkable and steals a former student’s book idea after he learns of the student’s death. But after the book becomes a #1 bestseller, someone on social media begins taunting him, telling him […]