It’s time to learn WHY certain loglines didn’t have the power to push past my discerning eye and make it into the Logline Showdown. Remember that I’m one person and, just because I didn’t like a logline doesn’t mean someone else won’t. Which is the main reason I like posting these articles. It gives you […]

Genre: Thriller Premise: A broke TaskRabbit in debt to her estranged sugar daddy holds a stolen painting she’s been tasked to deliver for ransom, leading to a deadly cat-and-mouse chase across the weirdest corners of New York City. About: This script finished fairly high on last year’s Black List. It is being produced by Rian […]

A peek into the mind of the modern successful spec script writer Genre: Not going to tell you Premise: A young boat cruise bartender who smuggles drugs up and down her ship’s route meets an intriguing but perpetually drunk man who takes an interest in her trade. About: Zach Dean has been writing scripts that […]

Calling it early… Title: THE TIME OF YOUR LIFEGenre: Sci-Fi ComedyLogline: Two feuding inventors with a lifelong rivalry use their newly created time machines to destroy the other’s past, present, and future, in order to be remembered in history as the father of time travel. TIME AFTER TIME meets GRUMPY OLD MEN Time of Your […]

Last week we had the official Logline Showdown. But there were so many good entries in the comedy genre, I decided to do a second showdown week just for the comedy entries. That’s what’s so great about Scriptshadow. You never know what’s going to happen next!! There are no rules! Well, except that you have […]