Welcome to Amateur Week!  All week we’re going to be reviewing scripts from amateur writers that got the best response from this post.  Time for you guys to take advantage of the opportunity.  Hope we find something great.  But even if we don’t, it should be a great week for learning why screenwriting is so […]

Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send in a PDF of your script, a PDF of the first ten pages of your script, your title, genre, logline, and finally, why I should read your script. Use my submission address please: Carsonreeves3@gmail.com. Your script and “first ten” will be posted. If […]

Those arguing that American Beauty didn’t have a great logline shall rejoice! (Well, not really). Today’s post is going back to that age old nightmare – loglines.  When I look through the amateur submissions to see what I’m going to review every Friday, I often find myself saying, “How in the world did this writer […]

Genre: Period/Crime Premise: In post World War II Japan, an American former prisoner-of-war rises in the yakuza. About: “The Outsider” finished 4th on last year’s Black List.  Writer Andrew Baldwin hasn’t done any major work that I’ve heard of up until “Outsider,” but he did script a draft of the in-development remake of “Logan’s Run.” […]

Genre: Sci-fi Premise: A group of survivors search for answers in an ash-fallen Los Angeles after an alien invasion. About: Ben Magid first gained traction in Hollywood with his dark take on Peter Pan, which reimagined Pan as a serial killer. He sold this script, Invasion, a couple years later to Summit. Writer: Ben Magid […]