Genre: Spy/ThrillerPremise: As the IRA moves in on one of their big targets, they begin to suspect that there’s a spy within the organization. About: Josh Zetumer originally tried to break into Hollywood writing a bunch of epic period/gangster/mob type scripts, stuff like The Departed, but wasn’t having any success. So he reevaluated his approach […]

Genre: Comedy/DramaPremise: A man in his 50s is laid off from his long-time job, forcing him to enroll in college for the first time.About: You know Tom Hanks the actor. But do you know Tom Hanks…THE WRITER!? Yes, Tom Hanks scripted today’s screenplay, Larry Crowne, and used that credit to somehow finagle a lead role […]

Genre: Horror/ZombiePremise: After a Zombie outbreak erupts, a devout Street Preacher must struggle to make it home and save his pregnant wife and young son while determined to keep to God’s commandments—especially, thou shalt not kill.About: Every Friday, I review a script from the readers of the site. If you’re interested in submitting your script […]

Yesterday, Joshua James hit us with The Jones Party, which sparked some pretty intense reactions (you can download the script here)!  Although it was his first script, it’s been optioned twice and gotten him a ton of assignment work.  I thought it was a really solid piece of writing,  Some of you thought it was […]

 Affleck’s decided on another project and it looks like it’s going to be “Tell No One,” one of my Top 10 scripts.  Except he’s NOT using the Orci Kurtzman draft.  Why?  No idea.  It’s ready to shoot this instant.  There’s nothing you can really do to make it better, except maybe take out all the […]