Genre: Period/True Story Premise: The true story of the murder of four American churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980 and the low-level American diplomat who teamed with his most dangerous informant to smoke out their killers. Based on Raymond Bonner’s work for The Atlantic. About: This script finished on the Black List. One of the […]

Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi Premise: A disastrous Grindr hookup goes from bad to worse when a meteor unleashes a horde of aliens on New York and the two ill-matched men must depend on each other to make it through the day alive. About: This is another breakout script for a writer, Thomas Kivney, who made it onto […]

As I continue to work hard on finishing my dialogue book, I took note of one of the comments from last week which basically said the following: “When’s the last time somebody went to a movie for the dialogue?” That question got me thinking. Because the truth is, I haven’t gone to see a movie […]

This review was originally in a newsletter but with the recent release of the trailer, I decided to officially put it up on the site. Enjoy! Genre: Period/Hollywood Premise: Follows a young Mexican man in the 1920s who has aspirations of working in Hollywood. But when he falls in love with a crazed rising star, […]

Write dialogue like this guy! The bulk of the Scriptshadow Dialogue book is written. The one chapter I’m still working on is this chapter I’m tentatively titling, the “verbal arena.” This is the chapter that’s going to teach you how to write like Tarantino, Woody Allen, Diablo Cody, Aaron Sorkin. I know some of you […]