Okay! Time for our second update of The Last Great Screenplay Contest. The good news is that a lot of scripts are getting in the “Maybe High” pile. A bigger percentage than I would’ve thought. There was a string of scripts I read, about ten of them, where six went into the “Maybe High” pile. […]

The Batman director, Matt Reeves’, big secret Netflix project. Genre: Short Story (Science Fiction) Premise: Set in the near future where, instead of criminals going to prison, their memories are wiped and they’re allowed back into society, a family man with no memory of the horrible crime he committed must learn to reintegrate back into […]

What if Hannibal Lecter was a woman? Oh, and a vampire killer. Genre: Supernatural Premise: A young female detective hunts down a serial killer who she begins to believe is killing vampires. About: This script sold a few days ago to Screen Gems. Stranger Things producers, 21 Laps, are on board to produce. The script […]

Is Normal People the “Titanic” of this generation? A love story that will be remembered for decades to come? I’d been avoiding Normal People on more than one front. I’d purchased the book and found myself reading a few pages at a time, unable to get into it. I’d throw on an episode every once […]

We have a new Amateur Showdown! If you don’t know what Amateur Showdown is, it’s a screenplay tournament where I pick five scripts that were submitted to me and then you, the readers, read as much of each script as you can then vote for your favorite in the comments section. The winner receives a […]