Genre: DramaPremise: A young woman at a care facility for at-risk teenagers deals with an unexpected pregnancy. About: One of the winners of the 2010 Nicholl Fellowship. Writer: Destin Daniel CrettonDetails: 121 pages (This is an early draft of the script. The situations, characters, and plot may change significantly by the time the film is […]

Genre: ThrillerPremise: An air marshal finds himself in the middle of a unique terrorist attack.About: This script sold very recently, I believe two or three weeks ago. It sold via the popular method of the writers developing it with a producer, who got it to a point where he liked it, then went out and […]

Genre: ThrillerPremise: When a group of bank robbers kidnap his wife, an accountant must try and save her. But when they all end up in a strange Rube Goldberg-like trap-filled mansion, the kidnapping becomes the least of their worries.About: John Burch, the writer, has informed me that he plans to shoot the first 11 minutes […]

So in the last two weeks since I wrote the GSU article, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about movies that ignore some, or in a few cases, all of the GSU variables and still manage to work. The truth is, goals stakes and urgency aren’t the only way to keep your audience interested. […]

Genre: Drama/ThrillerPremise: After a young couple accidentally records the killing of a mailman, they try to collect on a little-known reward the government hands out for proof in the killing of federal workers. About: This is Roberto Patino’s first breakthrough script, which landed on the bottom half of the 2009 Black List. Right now, Matt […]