Also, Carson offers everyone here a free killer high-concept idea at the end of the review! It’s a good one. And anyone can take it! Genre: Western Premise: After staging his death many years ago, an aging gunslinger is forced to reunite with his outlaw daughter during the dying days of the west. About: Remember, […]

This juicy high-concept show starring Mahershala Ali will be Hulu’s next big buzzy “whodunnit.” Genre: Thriller/Mystery Premise: A once successful author does the unthinkable and steals a former student’s book idea after he learns of the student’s death. But after the book becomes a #1 bestseller, someone on social media begins taunting him, telling him […]

Time to compare a plot-driven script with an anti-plot-driven script There are two things I can promise you. Number one, In and Out has the most consistently good cheeseburgers on the planet. And two, there has never been, nor ever will there be, a screenplay analyst who compares Spider-Man Across the Spiderverse and Sanctuary. I […]

We check out two First Page Entries and glean what it takes to write a great first page. Instead of doing a Logline Showdown this month, we are doing a FIRST PAGE SHOWDOWN. You send me the first page of your script, I put the best five first pages up on the site, the readers […]

Is today’s screenplay the spec script return of the slick high-concept sci-fi thriller? Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller Premise: A down-on-his-luck former getaway driver comes into possession of a mysterious watch that allows the user to go back in time by one minute. As he starts to uncover its uses and gets pulled into one last heist […]