DEADLINE FOR THE LAST GREAT SCREENPLAY CONTEST IS JULY 4TH!!! JUST 10 DAYS AWAY!!! This is the 3rd in my line of “How to Win The Last Great Screenplay Contest” articles. You can read the first one, on dialogue, here. Last week’s, on character, here. Today we’re going to talk about the second most important […]

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 […]