Genre: Sports DramaPremise: An aging baseball scout who’s losing his eyesight must enlist the help of a daughter who hates baseball to scout a young prospect.About: This one has a really interesting backstory to it and should give screenwriters everywhere hope that it can happen, if not on the timeframe they planned.  Writer Randy Brown […]

Genre: Drama/Thriller Premise: (Original Twit-Pitch Logline) A terrorist with a $10 mill bounty, a callous soldier of fortune and a mysterious man with no name walk into a bar in Afghanistan. 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 […]

Hello my fellow Scriptshadowians.  So I’ve wanted to write an article about theme for the longest time now but the truth is, it’s not one of my strengths.  I understand the broad strokes but there are times when theme flat out confuses me.  For that reason, I’ve brought in a tag-team partner, Tawnya Bhattacharya from Script Anatomy, to […]

Genre: Period/Epic/Sci-FiPremise: (from IMDB) An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.About: Wachowskis again!  This script was adapted by the Wachowskis as […]

Genre: Dark Comedy?Premise: When her more popular twin dies in a horrific car accident, a young woman unwittingly takes on her sister’s identity.About: This 2011 Black List script is currently in post-production.  Jenee LaMarque is both the writer and director.  Zoe Kazan will star as both twins.  Before this, LaMarque had only made a couple […]