Genre: Drama/Comedy Premise: Two weed growers who have been dating for over a decade have their relationship upended when one of them wins a reality TV show contest to fly to Mars. About: This script finished on last year’s Black List with six votes. It’s an adaptation of a short story from Deborah Willis in […]

Today’s movie is a prime example of the power of a small group of people working together to create art. Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: Set in the 1950s, a DJ and a switchboard operator living in a small town hear a strange noise coming over the airwaves and spend the night trying to decipher what the […]

Due to the corona-virus craziness, the Scriptshadow segue to producing has been pushed back a few months. And guess who benefits from that? YOU GUYS. I’m extending The Last Great Screenplay Contest deadline to July 4th. That’s right. INDEPENDENCE DAY. Think of it this way. On that day, your screenplay will finally achieve independence from […]

So I finished Netflix’s Into the Night and I can honestly say it’s the best TV show of the year so far. I haven’t encountered a show with this level of urgency in a long time. The closest I can think of is Netflix’s Black Summer. But what makes Into the Night so much better […]

This screenplay battle regarding the movie, “Yesterday,” has become an international story. Today, I review the original draft that led to the drama! Genre: Drama/Fantasy Premise: When a struggling musician realizes that he’s the only person on the planet to remember the Beatles, he starts passing the band’s songs off as his own. Only, they […]