Screenwriters everywhere beware. You will not be the same after this review. That’s because this screenplay is…well, I’ll just come out and say it.  It’s puppet noir. Genre: Puppet NoirPremise: When a serial killer starts murdering the cast of a once-famous puppet show called The Happytime Gang, two detectives, one a man, one a puppet, […]

Writer of one of my Top 25 favorite screenplays takes a few moments to share his experiences with Scriptshadow Nation. Brian Duffield shot onto the scene with his Black List script, “Your Bridesmaid Is A Bitch,” about a young man who must endure a wedding weekend around his ex-girlfriend, who he’s still trying to get […]

Today’s screenplay tackles that age-old screenwriting question: How does an alien spy save planet earth? Genre: Sci-FiPremise: Behind the scenes of a modern day earth, the leaders of the world learn that a faraway civilization is planning to wipe them out. So they send in a spy – one of the aliens who came to […]

Guest reviewer Andrew Page gets a chance to review a screenplay about one of his idols, Jimi Hendrix. Hello all. As I work tirelessly around the clock to bring you some fun Scriptshadow changes in the coming months, I’ll be depending on longtime Scriptshadow readers to fill in with the occasional guest review. Today, I […]

Today’s screenplay probably won’t win the Nicholl anytime soon, but it might just win your death from laughing so hard. Genre: ComedyPremise: An angry bitter 30-something finds a loophole in the National Spelling Bee rules which allows him to join the competition. About: Bad Words made the 2011 Black List, finishing near the middle of […]