The Scriptshadow March Newsletter is in your Inboxes! You can discuss the newsletter on the official post here! A couple of weeks ago I sat down with screenwriter (and actor, and director) Leah McKendrick on a rainy LA morning at my favorite coffee spot, Sightglass Coffee, just off of LaBrea. It’s this big open space […]

Week 9 of the “2 Scripts in 2024” Challenge Week 1 – Concept Week 2 – Solidifying Your Concept Week 3 – Building Your Characters Week 4 – Outlining Week 5 – The First 10 Pages Week 6 – Inciting Incident Week 7 – Turn Into 2nd Act Week 8 – Fun and Games Every […]

Genre: Zombie Thriller Premise: When a zombie disaster overtakes the city out of nowhere, a family is trapped in their high-rise Miami hotel. With danger closing in fast, they’re left with only one way to go: Up. About: This script finished with 11 votes on last year’s Black List. The writer, Aaron Sala, wrote a […]

Genre: Spy Thriller Logline: No idea. About: Only thing I know about this script is that one half of the writing team wrote Adam Sandler’s “Hustle.” Writers: Taylor Materne and Jacob Rubin (story by Damian Chezelle) Details: 120 pages We’re going old-school Scriptshadow today, back to the days when I’d have no idea what I […]

You may not know this but the box office whispers to us. Sometimes it whispers softly. Sometimes it whispers loudly. But it’s always trying to tell us something. As I scrolled down through this year’s releases, I could feel the list massaging new thoughts and opinions directly into my abgudala-medula. The first two months of […]