Again, Amateur Offerings is when YOU the Scriptshadow readers submit your own scripts in a Battle Royale format. The script that gets the most votes in the Comments section gets a Friday review, where, if the script is good, good things are known to happen. And it’s a special Amateur Offerings post since one of […]

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So a few weeks ago I was watching a short film (actually, it was the one I linked to in my newsletter) and I marveled at how easy it is to stand out in that medium. You have so many tools available to you. You can do something funky with the color grading (the green […]

Genre: Sci-fi/Thriller Premise: In the future, crime-fighting has been taken to the next level with “Vision,” a government project that allows specially trained agents to watch everything we do – and it’s all totally legal. About: “Vision” went out a month ago and while it hasn’t sold yet, it probably will. Writer-director brothers Alex and […]

Genre: TV Pilot – Drama Premise: A show that follows the DEA’s attempts to take down one of the most notorious drug lords in history, Pablo Escobar. About: Narcos is the newest show to come to Netflix (it debuts in late August) and is written by Chris Brancato, an extremely successful TV writer who most […]