The Brigands of Rattleborge meets Water for Elephants meets Deliverance? Genre: Drama/Dark/Thriller Premise: After a 1976 traveling carnival sets up in a small town in Louisiana, the locals become enraged with the actions of the carnival workers, and set about taking the carnival down. About: S. Craig Zahler needs no introduction on this site. He […]

Wait a minute. This script sold for 3 million dollars?? Genre: Comedy/Horror/Blockbuster? Premise: When a man comes to a psychiatrist claiming to be a werewolf, the psychiatrist attempts to videotape his transformation to prove to him that he’s merely hallucinating, but is shocked to learn that the man is telling the truth. About: Is Hollywood […]

Plus the writer, Alex Felix, chimes in on what it was like getting the script made. An insightful look into the development and production process of Hollywood! Genre: Drama/Crime Logline: (from IMDB) A social worker assigned to the care of the daughter of a single mother intervenes when the dad returns from prison and lures […]

It’s finally here. If you don’t know what’s happening, let’s catch you up. The Scriptshadow Showdown Series is a screenplay competition where anyone can send in their script to compete. I go through all the loglines and pick my favorite five. I then post those five, along with the scripts, for you, the readers, to […]

Deadline for Sci-Fi Showdown is tonight (Thursday) at 11:59 pm pacific time. Details for entry ARE HERE I was going to save this for the newsletter but what the hell. It’s Sci-Fi Week and what’s more Sci-Fi than The Matrix? So let’s go back in time for a second. I remember seeing the Matrix trailer […]