Genre: Dark Comedy Premise: When a lonely and socially-stunted young woman mistakenly receives a severed thumb in the mail, she makes it her life’s obsession to return it to the hand it once belonged to–putting her on a collision course that will upend her world forever. About: This script got on last year’s Black List, […]

Or, if it isn’t, it will be soon The first newsletter in three months is a doozy. We’ve got a great script notes deal for the first four people who grab it. We have the announcement of a major SHOWDOWN. We have a breakdown of a sexy new horror film. I dissect a ton of […]

Genre: Drama Premise: Four of the richest people in the world, all of whom work in the tech sector, meet up for a weekend getaway, while the tech tools they’ve created incinerate the world. About: Succession creator Jesse Armstrong wanted to make a movie about the tech bro world, specifically the “lack of self-awareness” prevalent […]

The writers scored 2 million dollars for the sale of their Sci-Fi Story Last week, I reviewed the 2-million dollar short story sale, “Drift,” by Ben Queen and Jason Shuman. The story follows a hostage trade between humans and aliens. Ben e-mailed me the next day and asked if I could take the review down […]

Today’s script asks, “What if Marriage Story actually had a plot?” Genre: Drama Premise: A rising movie star and her struggling playwright husband meet with a pretentious director and a manipulative intimacy coordinator to rehearse a sex scene. Over one chaotic day, power struggles, petty jealousies, and explosive accusations threaten their marriage–and the careers of […]