Sideways meets A Christmas Carol in Alexander Payne’s latest project. Genre: Drama Premise: A professor at a prestigious all-boys academy in 1970 is stuck babysitting the one “holdover” over Christmas break, a student whose parents have ditched him for the holiday. About: This is the big re-teaming (it’s Re-teaming Week here at Scriptshadow!) of Alexander […]

The director and the writer of “Seven” are back in the saddle again for this wild and disgusting short movie. Genre: Fantasy/Period Premise: A ship sailing through the ocean is boarded by a giant man-eating crab that demands to be taken to a highly populated island where it can feast to its heart’s content. About: […]

As we ramp up to next week’s debut of the Obi-Wan Kenobi show, the Star Wars heads have reluctantly started doing press to build excitement for the Disney Plus series. I say “reluctantly,” because Kathleen Kennedy hates press. She hates it because any discussion about the background workings of Star Wars will eventually lead back […]

Genre: Thriller Premise: A year after her husband’s death, an adrenaline junkie rock climber finds herself being hunted by a serial killer during a canoe run. About: This script finished in the bottom half of last year’s Black List. Screenwriter Jeremy Robbins did some writing on the TV show version of The Purge. Writer: Jeremy […]

Finally! The Bee Keeper script is here! Genre: Action-Thriller Premise: When his elderly neighbor is duped out of her entire life savings by online scammers and subsequently commits suicide, a bee keeper goes on a rampage to take the scammers down. About: Yeah baby! Bzzzbzzzbzzzz!  We’ve got a spec script that sold for over a […]