Genre: Horror BiopicPremise: A biopic of Edgar Allan Poe’s life.About: This is Sylvester Stallone’s passion project which he’s been trying to make for 30 years. He explains, “I keep telling my producer Avi Lerner, ‘Make Edgar Allan Poe!,'” “He says, ‘Does he have a gun?’ ‘No, he doesn’t have a gun’, ‘Can he throw a […]

Genre: Action/ThrillerPremise: A small group of correctional officers and inmates must band together to fend off a mysterious attack when their prison bus is sabotaged on a remote stretch of highway.About: This script originally went into select production companies late last year – which landed the writer, Terrance Mulloy, meetings all over town. This new […]

Genre: Horror/SupernaturalPremise: A strange event results in nearly everyone in the world vanishing into thin air. A small group of survivors find each other and try to figure out what happened.About: Brad Anderson, the director of “Vanishing,” has always been an interesting filmmaker to me, but truth be told his films have left me wanting […]

Doing something a little different today. Roger is reviewing a script from a professional reader. Does he have what it takes to write a great script? While reading a ton of scripts helps your own screenwriting, I’ll be the first to admit it doesn’t ensure success. Each script has its own unique challenges and there’s […]

Genre: Comedy Premise: A flight attendant who refuses to grow up gets stuck escorting an uptight 14 year old boy cross-country. About: It’s always interesting to get some background on a writer after I read a script. Whenever I see this much skill, I figure the guy has to have been at it for awhile. […]