This juicy high-concept show starring Mahershala Ali will be Hulu’s next big buzzy “whodunnit.” Genre: Thriller/Mystery Premise: A once successful author does the unthinkable and steals a former student’s book idea after he learns of the student’s death. But after the book becomes a #1 bestseller, someone on social media begins taunting him, telling him […]

Time to compare a plot-driven script with an anti-plot-driven script There are two things I can promise you. Number one, In and Out has the most consistently good cheeseburgers on the planet. And two, there has never been, nor ever will there be, a screenplay analyst who compares Spider-Man Across the Spiderverse and Sanctuary. I […]

We check out two First Page Entries and glean what it takes to write a great first page. Instead of doing a Logline Showdown this month, we are doing a FIRST PAGE SHOWDOWN. You send me the first page of your script, I put the best five first pages up on the site, the readers […]

Is today’s screenplay the spec script return of the slick high-concept sci-fi thriller? Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller Premise: A down-on-his-luck former getaway driver comes into possession of a mysterious watch that allows the user to go back in time by one minute. As he starts to uncover its uses and gets pulled into one last heist […]

Is “Suits” a perfectly constructed pilot? Recently, I read an article that the two biggest streaming shows in America were Gray’s Anatomy and NCIS. I’ve never personally met anyone who’s seen an episode of NCIS so, naturally, this was confusing to me. I was also confused when, amidst a bottomless pit of shows on Netflix, […]