Today’s project is another Stephen King adaptation. Can we learn some of the movie adaptation master’s secrets from the review? Genre: Thriller Premise: A writer on a late-night drive stops at a rest stop only to find himself in the middle of an escalating domestic dispute. About: This was a Stephen King short story that […]

Genre: Horror Premise: (from Black List) After strange deaths and suicides skyrocket in a dying Appalachian coal town, Maggie – a first responder – wages a personal war against the local coal mine, unearthing a disturbing past that the company has kept secret within the waters of the local lake. About: This script finished on […]

You Should Have Left leaves aspiring writers the breadcrumbs for how to write the perfect company man screenplay. Genre: Horror Premise: A man accused of killing his ex-wife heads to a brand new Air BnB home in the English countryside with his new actress wife and young daughter. But nothing about this house is what […]

This is the second in a series of articles leading up to The Last Great Screenplay Contest deadline, which is July 4th. Today we’re going to talk about a common screenplay topic that remains one of the hardest to get right. And that’s character. Or, more specifically, how to set up your characters to give […]

Genre: Family/Sci-Fi Premise: After moving to Maine and befriending an enigmatic hermit, twelve-year-old Henrietta Thorne begins to wonder if he holds the key to solving a mystery that has eluded our planet for more than a decade. About: Today’s writers have been at the screenwriting craft for over ten years. They wrote and directed the […]