Yesterday was all about the strong dialogue. Conversations were popping off the page throughout Voicemails for Isabelle. They were fun. They were vibrant. They were clever. Easily top 5 dialogue I’ve encountered all year. What’s frustrating, though, is that a lot of what you saw yesterday is God-given talent. Some writers understand how people speak […]

Check out my interview with writer Leah McKendrick here! Genre: Rom-Com Premise: (from Black List) A low-level TV writer struggles to cope with the death of her little sister by continuing to leave her voicemails chronicling the shitshow that is dating in LA. When the phone number is unknowingly transferred, a cocky New York real […]

Genre: Horror Premise: A mother and her twin teenage sons live in a remote cabin where they’ve developed a system to protect themselves from the evil that has destroyed the rest of the world. About: Shawn Levy can’t get enough! Even after becoming Netflix’s number 2 man behind Reed Hastings, the Stranger Things producer wants […]

Okay, everybody. Monday is Labor Day so I’m not going to be back until, gasp, TUESDAY! I mean, the madness, right? How are we going to survive without our Scriptshadow updates? Well, building off yesterday’s article about READING SCRIPTS, I’m going to make this the official script trading thread. Here you can talk about recent […]

1997’s The Postman was voted the most boring movie of all time I was talking to a screenwriter the other day and we got on the topic of reading scripts. I asked her how many scripts she’d read this year. Her answer surprised me. She said, “How many have I finished or how many have […]