Today’s script contains hints of one of the most famous scripts of all time, “Killing on Carnival Row.” Could it possibly be as good as that script? Genre: Serial Killer/Period Premise: When their friends begin dying at the hands of a brutal killer, an all-female crime syndicate, The Forty Elephants, must work together to take […]

Genre: Comedy/Drama Premise: Eighth grader Simon Paluska dreams of being a Taekwondo Black Belt, but he’s not allowed to take lessons. So he buys a Black Belt on Amazon for twenty-five bucks. Then, he has to use it. About: Today’s script finished in the top 20 on last year’s Black List. Randall Green wrote 2019’s […]

Week 0 (concept) Week 1 (outline) Week 2 (first act) Week 3 (first half of second act) Week 4 (second half second act) Week 5 (third act) Week 6 (evaluate your first draft) Week 7 (rewrite plan of attack) The hardest thing about rewriting is encountering problems that you don’t have the answers for. For […]

I give you an update on my first producing project, Kinetic, and get into the challenges of producing in general. I review a 180 page screenplay starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. You will not want to miss this review, trust me. I get into Amazon’s insane spending spree on content. Numbers so big that […]

Remember the days when you were a young gullible screenwriter and assumed that whoever you sent your script to sat down in front of a warm fire, a glass of expensive red wine by their side, and read your script from start to finish with the determined focus of a surgeon? Ahhh, those were the […]