Our first look at one of the 2018 Nicholl Winners! Genre: Drama Premise: A gifted young black mathematician’s life is thrown into disarray after a terrible accident sends him to prison. About: Today’s script was one of the four WINNERS of the 2018 Nicholl Contest, the most popular of all the screenwriting contests. Writer: Grace […]

Genre: TV Show – Hitchcockian Thriller Premise: A secret military program in Florida prepares soldiers coming back from the war to effectively integrate back into society. About: Homecoming started off as a podcast and gained a lot of publicity at the time as it was the first podcast that had attracted big name talent to […]

Don’t do it don’t do it don’t do it don’t do it. These are the words that have been assaulting my brain every hour for the last seven days. That would be when Red Dead Redemption 2 came out. Since then, I’ve gone to Amazon.com every hour on the hour and stared at a sleek […]

Here are 10 lessons born out of the mistakes I’ve seen in the last 10 scripts I consulted on. Uh, yeah, of course The Matrix appears in this article. TAKE AT LEAST ONE BIG CHANCE – The most common script I read is the by-the-book script. It’s set in a familiar genre – horror, thriller, […]

Genre: Horror-Thriller Premise: (from Blood List) Deep in the winter woods of upstate New York, a retiring public school teacher, Liz, 63, uncovers a carefully guarded secret while searching for her missing student in the shuttered homes of a vacation community. As Liz fights to survive this unthinkable evil she will be forced to make […]