Genre: Drama?  Sci-fi?  Comedy? Premise: In the near future, a new scientific procedure allows people to shrink themselves to four inches tall, which reduces their carbon imprint on the planet, putting less stress on the environment.  But this shrinking leads to a whole new set of problems. About: Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants, Election) was […]

Genre: Spy/Thriller/Drama Premise: In the Soviet Union, post World War 2, a Soviet agent suspects a man of killing and mutilating dozens of children.    About: This script is based on the book of the same name.  This 2008 draft (which made the Black List) was written by Richard Price, who wrote many episodes of The […]

NEW 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 […]

Good Will Hunting has some of the best backstory integration ever in a script. Backstory. It’s essential to every screenplay. Yet so few writers understand how to apply it. Some choke their screenplays with so much backstory, their story suffocates and passes out.  While others add so little, it’s like their characters were born the […]

Genre: Supernatural Drama Premise: Set during the Depression, a widow and her son are visited by a strange man who may have the ability to communicate with the dead.  About: This is the writer’s breakthrough screenplay.  Before this, he was one of the writers on the HBO show, “In Treatment.”  He’s repped over at CAA.  […]