Week 0 (concept) Week 1 (outline) Week 2 (first act) Week 3 (first half of second act) Week 4 (second half second act) Week 5 (third act) Week 6 (evaluate your first draft) Week 7 (rewrite plan of attack) The hardest thing about rewriting is encountering problems that you don’t have the answers for. For […]

I give you an update on my first producing project, Kinetic, and get into the challenges of producing in general. I review a 180 page screenplay starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. You will not want to miss this review, trust me. I get into Amazon’s insane spending spree on content. Numbers so big that […]

Remember the days when you were a young gullible screenwriter and assumed that whoever you sent your script to sat down in front of a warm fire, a glass of expensive red wine by their side, and read your script from start to finish with the determined focus of a surgeon? Ahhh, those were the […]

Genre: War/True Story Premise: Chronicles the clandestine CIA operation that risked igniting WWIII by recovering a nuclear-armed Soviet Sub, the K-129, that sunk to the bottom of the ocean in 1968. About: Scott Free Films (Ridley Scott’s company) bought the rights to the David H. Sharp book “The CIA’s Greatest Covert Operation: Inside the Daring […]

Week 0 (concept) Week 1 (outline) Week 2 (first act) Week 3 (first half of second act) Week 4 (second half second act) Week 5 (third act) Week 6 (Evaluate your first draft) A PLAN OF ATTACK This week, you will lay out a rewrite-targeted outline. The key to any good rewrite is A PLAN […]