Guess what day it is? It’s SCRIPTSHADOW WRITE A COMEDY SCRIPT IN 3 MONTHS BEGINNING OF WEEK LIST OF THINGS FOR YOU TO DO THIS WEEK day. For those unfamiliar, Comedy Showdown is going down June 17th. That’s the submission deadline. In the meantime, I’m helping you write your script. I’ve already done Week One […]

Writing great comedy scripts does not come down to plot or theme or even, as commonly assumed, dialogue. It comes down to how funny the key characters are in the script. Are they constructed in such a way that they are inherently funny without having to do anything? When you manage to construct an inherently […]

Genre: Comedy Premise: An action comedy wherein Benji Stone, a lovable but deeply unpopular sixteen year old, is pulled into an international assassination plot by his uncle, a retired undercover assassin charged with babysitting Benji for the weekend. About: This script finished with 8 votes on this past Black List. The writer, Gabe Delahaye, has […]

Genre: Thriller Premise: An Air Marshal transporting a fugitive across the Alaskan wilderness via a small plane finds herself trapped when she suspects their pilot is not who he says he is. About: Jared Rosenberg has a few scripts in development. But he’s still scratching and clawing his way to his first produced credit. This […]

Bonus free comedy script idea at the bottom of today’s post if you couldn’t come up with one – Inspired by Kylie Jenner! Remember, the deadline for Comedy Showdown is… June 17th! (find out how to submit here) Now, if you’re a well-behaved screenwriter, you did all your homework this week. You wrote down your […]