Genre: ComedyPremise: A school guidance counselor who dated pop sensation Lake James back in high school, follows her into rehab in hopes of rekindling their romance. About: Writer Sam Laybourne is a producer on the cult comedy hit, Cougar Town (which I admit is actually kind of funny, even if all the characters are written […]

Genre: Comedy Premise: (Original Twit-Pitch Logline) After winning a nationwide lottery a man must decide what to do with his prize, fifteen minutes of advice to give to his younger self. About: For those recently joining Scriptshadow, I held a contest a few months back called “Twit-Pitch,” where anyone could pitch me their screenplay on Twitter, as […]

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Desperate Hours.  One of the defining indicators of a great script is that, afterwards, you feel like you’ve already seen the movie.  The writing is so powerful, so descriptive, that all the images are already in your head.  The mobsters coming out of the train with their […]

Genre: PeriodPremise: A small town crippled by WWI and the Spanish flu finds itself facing major moral questions and a brutal invading force when a young girl shows up on a rancher’s doorstep covered in blood.About: I don’t know much about this project or this writer.  If it’s the same Mariani listed on IMDB, he’s […]

Genre: ThrillerPremise: A diplomatic courier finds himself in possession of information way above his pay-grade. He will have to race across Europe and get to the U.S. Embassy in Munich if he has any hopes of surviving. About: Warner Brothers bought this spec recently. Writer Lynn seems to love the thriller genre. To date he […]