Genre: Action/Sci-Fi/Found Footage Premise: A group of storm chasers hoping to catch an elusive F5 tornado on camera catch something way more dangerous. About: This script was written all the way back in 2010. It comes from screenwriters Chris Rossi and Gabriel Scott. Rossi penned a maudlin drama a few years ago called Meadowland that […]

Genre: Biopic/True Story Premise: Based on a true story, a failed New York model transitions into the lucrative world of weed-dealing. About: Today’s script comes from Elyse Hollander, who you may remember as the writer of 2016’s #1 Black List script, Blonde Ambition, about Madonna’s early days in New York. I refused to read that […]

Genre: TV/One-hour Drama Premise: A low-level MI5 operative is tasked with looking into a murder orchestrated by a female assassin. About: Today’s show has an unexpected Star Wars connection. It was created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who many people know as the voice of the doomed L3-37, Lando’s favorite droid, in the movie, “Solo.” Killing Eve […]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa Whoa whoa whoawhoawhoa whoa Whoa whoa whoa whoawhoa whoa whoa What did I just watch? I’m trying to process this. Lots of internal whoa-ness happing. Happing? Happening? What’s the difference at this point? Why is JJ shooting this in 3.75 to 1 aspect ratio? Did […]

We are reaching an epidemic in bad set-piece writing. For those of you who don’t know what set pieces are, they’re the big featured action scenes in a script, your Indiana Jones runs through a cave, your airport battle in Captain America: Civil War, that scene in every Mission Impossible movie where Tom Cruise races […]