I was so frustrated by yesterday’s script – specifically how lame the main character was – that I needed to write an article reminding everyone how to write a main character. As I said yesterday, your story *is* your main character. So if you get that part right, everything else in the script is likely […]

Genre: Crime/Drama Premise: A rapper who built his gangster image off an old friend learns that the friend has been released from prison early and is looking for revenge. About: Making a movie is hard. You can be *this* close and, all of a sudden, BAM, everything falls apart. That’s what happened with Harmony Korine’s […]

Genre: Science-Fiction Premise: (from Hit List) An Air Force cargo plane on a routine delivery breaks up over the desert. The survivors can’t radio for help, but they pick up a mysterious signal. They aren’t alone. About: This script finished with 25 votes on last year’s Hit List. It is the feature adaptation of a […]

Genre: Drama Premise: After a young child is taken and killed by a wolf, an Alaskan woman hires a wolf expert to find and terminate the offending wolf. About: It’s the newest Netflix Original release. But don’t let that scare you off. This one is supposed to be good. It stars Big Little Lies standout, […]

Just a reminder that Halloween is fast approaching. That means we’ll be doing an all-horror Amateur Offerings the weekend of the 20th. Get those horror scripts prepared and have them in by October 18th! If you haven’t played Amateur Offerings before, shame on you. A vote from you could mean the difference between a screenwriter […]