I love The Bear. It’s an extremely well-written show. So I thought, let’s bring “10 Screenwriting Tips” out of retirement so we can learn what screenwriting tricks The Bear is using to be so goooooood! 1) Obstacle Mania – Whatever your characters’ giant goal is, your job, especially in a TV show, is to place […]
Genre: Action-Thriller Premise: When her family is abducted, a disgraced submariner must pilot a narco submarine to its destination in less than eight hours or her husband and daughter will be killed. About: Today’s writer is from Kansas City. He studied film at the University of Kansas. This script got him on last year’s Black […]
Genre: Action/Adventure Premise: Indiana Jones is pulled into one last adventure when his goddaughter asks him to help her find a dial created by Archimedes that has the power to travel through time. About: The fifth and final Indiana Jones film, which is said to have cost 280 million dollars, pulled in just 60 million […]
Genre: Teen Comedy Premise: When two high school seniors discover a robot from outer space, they ignore its warning of an imminent alien invasion and reprogram it to help them score with chicks! About: This is the logline that won the June Logline Showdown. Congrats to E.C. for the big win. He had to beat […]
We’ve got aliens. We’ve got submarines. We’ve got some criminally affordable notes to the lucky few who e-mail me quickly. We’ve got the COVER FOR MY NEW DIALOGUE BOOK. That’s right. It’s really happening! I share my thoughts on the new Zendaya tennis movie trailer, that controversial Taylor Sheridan profile in The Hollywood Reporter, and […]
