It’s always fun to see Scriptshadow veterans have success.  Kevin Bachar is a former Amateur Showdown winner.  He credits the win and the subsequent review as a big learning experience for him.  Since then, he’s gone on to write a script, The Inhabitant, a modern take on serial killer Lizzie Borden, that he got optioned […]

This genre, once a secret handshake between in-the-know writers and audiences, has been all but forgotten.  Is a sleeper screenwriter ready to revive it? One of the movies I watched recently for my dialogue book was the romantic comedy, Jerry Maguire. That movie has some of the most iconic lines ever written in it. SHOW […]

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 […]