A gay man trying to make it as an actor on Broadway is not a movie. A gay man trying to make it as a boxer in Philly is. A genius mathematician who wins the Nobel prize in Mathematics is not a movie. A janitor at MIT who wins the Nobel Prize in Mathematics is. […]

Genre: Thriller Premise: (from Black List) After a shooting at a police funeral by a suspected militia member, a recluse ex-cop and fellow militia man must interrogate the suspected gunmen in his own militia before copycat attacks start a nationwide war between cops and militia. About: This script finished on the 2015 Black List. The […]

I thought I was walking into a post-Twilight trainwreck. Instead I think I just saw the next Trainspotting. Genre: Thriller Premise: When his brother is thrown in jail after a bank robbery gone bad, a low-life street thug will do anything to bail him out by the end of the night. About: Good Time is […]

Genre: Adventure/Comedy Premise: After two fame-seeking Millennials are outed for their plans to fake a sailing adventure blog, no one believes it when they really are ship-wrecked and lost at sea. About: The first half of the story pokes fun at our obsession with fame and lampoons our dependence on smart phones. In the back […]

A script without a theme is like a photograph without a subject. The picture can be well-composed, colorful, sharp, and yet the experience of looking at the photo feels empty. You get no sense of what the photographer was trying to say with the image. “Trying to say,” is a nice way to define theme. […]