Genre: Comedy Premise: Best friends and former time travelers Bill and Ted are called back by the heavens to save the world. All they have to do is write a song that unites every single person on the planet. And they’ve got 77 minutes to do it. About: They have been trying to make this […]

YAAAAAAYYYYY!!! A Scriptshadow Newsletter Weekend. What can you expect in this newsletter? All sorts of opinions, that’s for sure. I take on Christopher Nolan and his pretentiousness, I fawn over the new Batman trailer, I ask if Sofia Coppola was ever a good director on the eve of her latest film. I update you on […]

Genre: WW2/Thriller Logline: In 1942, the sole survivor of an u-boat-destroyed British arctic convoy is paired with a native Inuit hunter on a months-long journey across the frozen wasteland of Northern Greenland. Before reaching civilization, they must survive the unforgiving conditions, an outside threat lurking in the dark — and the fact that one of […]

“It’s purpose, Neo.” As you guys know since I constantly talk about it on the site, one of my screenwriting obsessions is scene-writing. The reason for that is, I have a theory that everything in screenwriting comes down to writing good scenes. If a scene is entertaining, we’re going to want to read til the […]

Genre: Comedy Premise: After a 30-something female thief is framed for stealing a 2 million dollar piece of jewelry, she dresses up in an old woman suit and hides out in an assisted living facility. About: This script finished low on last year’s Black List and sold for NEARLY 1 MILLION DOLLARS to Paramount. Writer […]