So I’m sitting down last night and this question keeps circulating through my head. How does a writer like the writer of Resurrection do it? Why is his treatment of this idea so much better than everybody else’s treatment of it? Cause I’ve read tons of scripts about men threatening women. I would venture to […]

What if I told you that someone just wrote the female version of Joker, and that it’s actually better than that movie? Genre: F#@%d Up Premise: A single mother in New York City begins seeing a mysterious older man from her past around town and becomes convinced that he’s come back into her life to […]

Ridley Scott’s first ever TV show! Genre: TV Drama/Sci-Fi Premise: Two atheist-programmed androids are tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet but their plan is compromised when a second God-fearing ship of humans arrives. About: This is a big one. It hails from Aaron Guzikowski, who sold his spec, Prisoners, for 1 […]

It seems strange to say there’s nothing to watch in the era of 15,000 TV shows but THERE WAS NOTHING TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND! While scrolling through Netflix, I somehow ended up on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), a movie I hadn’t seen since I was a kid but remembered loving. I always […]

Where screenwriters rise from the ashes to prove once and for all, the voters got it wrong! I know. A lot of you are angrily checking your e-mail, confused about the lack of a Scriptshadow Newsletter inside when I promised you it was coming at the beginning of the week. What’s going on, Carson!!? Hey, […]