I’m going to be hard at work all weekend on the newsletter so there’s no time for a Showdown today. But do not worry. I’ll be doing Second Chance Showdown next weekend. As for what to expect with the newsletter, I can confirm now there won’t be any Star Wars in it. For those of […]

Going back through Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s script reviews, I identified a common theme, which was: HOLY SCHNIKEYS, STRUCTURE MATTERS A LOT! Without structure, you can lose your grip on a good concept by page 20. I actually like the concept of a smart house attacking someone. I know it’s been done before but no one […]

What? A new feature on Scriptshadow? A full 10 years after the site started? How does that even happen?? Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama Premise: (from Hit List) When new technology allows people to have realistic sex in virtual reality, a man begins to suspect that the avatar he’s been digitally hooking up with behind his girlfriend’s back […]

Today’s screenplay poses the question, “What if you could date Hal 9000?” Genre: Thriller Premise: After a whirlwind long-distance online romance, a once-cynical writer inherits a remote smart-house from her newly deceased new husband and discovers he might not be entirely gone after all. About: Lauren Caris Cohan is a writer-director and this is going […]

Today Carson does the unthinkable. He makes the argument that character development is pointless in an action movie (Okay, he doesn’t go that far but it makes for good clickbait) Genre: Action Premise: (from IMDB) A fearless black market mercenary embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he’s enlisted to rescue the […]