I don’t know what ElDave and I are. Are we enemies? Frenemies? Are we brothers who fight in the car the whole time we’re driving on vacation, our parents screaming at us from the front seat that if we don’t stop, they’re turning this car around!  Are we sisters who scream at each other all […]

This may become a new feature on the site depending on how it goes. I was thinking of this recent article about Ridley Scott saying he doesn’t watch movies anymore. He feels that modern movies are “mediocre.” I started to think about that. Because a collaborator of Scott’s, Denzel Washington, recently said something similar. “I’m […]

Genre: Drama Premise: A young woman attends the funeral of her college boyfriend’s father, ten years after they broke up. About: This script finished in the middle of the pack on last year’s Black List. Writer: Gaelyn Golde Details: 100 pages The Feels. We’ve all got them. Well, most of us anyway. And we use […]

The most ambitious movie of Paul Thomas Anderson’s career Genre: Drama/Thriller Premise: A former revolutionary who gets high all day must spring back into action when his teenage daughter is taken by the very group he used to fight for. About: Paul Thomas Anderson burst onto the scene as a directing superstar with his one-two […]

These scene showdowns always end up being a little more controversial than I expect. Some people have said that by creating this challenge, it forces writers to write bigger scenes than they otherwise would have. I don’t think that’s true. As unknown screenwriters, you have to hook a reader right away. So starting with a […]