Genre: Sci-FiPremise: A geneticist who specializes in cloning risks his reputation and life’s work to save his sick daughter.About: The Keeper Project is a 2009 PAGE Award Bronze Prize winner in the Sci-Fi category. That makes it Top 31 out of 6300 entries. — Every Friday, I review a script from the readers of the […]

F. Scott Frazier broke onto the scene over a year ago with his eerie spec script “The Numbers Station,” which he sold to Content Film. The script is about a man tasked with guarding a strange top secret remote station that ends up getting breached, putting his life in jeopardy. The film is going into […]

Genre: Offbeat ComedyPremise: When a man’s cat is impaled by an arrow, he will go to the ends of the earth (or at least his town) to find the killer. About: Hey, it’s List Week. Murder Of A Cat made last year’s Black List, and it looks to be the writers’ breakthrough screenplay. Before this, […]

Genre: ComedyPremise: A 20-something publicist uses today’s social networking tools to track down his old tutor, who he was in love with as a kid. About: Lauren Pemberton, as far as I know, did not sell. It did, however, make last year’s Hit List. While The Black List compiles the industry’s favorite unmade scripts, there […]

Genre: Crime/Drama Premise: An ex-cop just out of jail seeks revenge on the partner who set him up. About: Brian Helgeland is an example of having to pay your dues before you make it to the big time. Many may know him as the writer of L.A. Confidential, Mystic River, and Man On Fire. He […]