I recently read a script from a beginner scribe that wasn’t very good. The key problem was the plot, which was too simplistic and predictable. This simplicity bled into the scene-writing, which was also too predictable. Everything had an “obvious” quality to it, like the writer hadn’t considered any other possibilities. Frustrated, I shared the […]

Genre: Horror Premise: A long-forgotten killer from the 1940s reappears in the present day to wreak havoc on a small town. About: Blumhouse ain’t stopping any time soon. The business savvy Jason Blum realized that we haven’t created an iconic slasher movie monster since the 80s. And why wouldn’t you, seeing as you can milk […]

Genre: Period Drama Premise: Set in the 1700s, Knifeman chronicles the birth of modern surgery. About: Knifeman is one of the lucky pilots that survived AMC’s in-house contest where only the best pilots, as voted for by the employees, make it to air. Knifeman is written by Rolin Jones, who created another AMC series, Low […]

Genre: Superhero! Premise: An Amazonian Princess living on a remote island is brought to the real world, where she uses her unique set of powers to take down a mega-corporation with world domination on the brain (basically every comic-hero plot ever). About: This is the Joss Whedon draft of Wonder Woman he wrote in 2006! […]

TITLE: Lost Continent GENRE: Action/Adventure LOGLINE: A treasure hunter is in a race against the man who murdered his father to find the lost kingdom of Atlantis and the incredible power that it harbors. WHY YOU SHOULD READ: I’m actually shocked there haven’t been as many movies made about Atlantis as there have been about […]