Will “Us” blow people away like Peele’s first film? Review Monday! Since I think about screenwriting 24/7, I’m often juggling 2-3 big picture screenwriting questions in my head at a time. I mentally lay out the problem, work through potential solutions, and eventually come up with a few tiny insights, failing to crack the elusive […]
Today I teach you how to avoid the thing that did me in as a screenwriter. Genre: Crime/Murder Premise: A jaded detective teams up with a young cocky LA county detective to solve a string of murders in Los Angeles. About: This project just got announced the other day. John Lee Hancock has convinced Denzel […]
Genre: High School Comedy Premise: When two nerdy seniors realize they’re the only girls in class without boyfriends, they try and use the same skills that made them straight A students to ace the ultimate test: find dates for the prom. About: Booksmart is the directorial debut of Olivia Wilde. It just premiered at SXSW […]
Genre: Thriller/Drama Premise: (from IMDB) Five former Special Forces operatives reunite to plan a heist in a sparsely populated multi-border zone of South America. About: Frequent collaborators Mark Boal and Katheryn Bigelow were set to make this film back in 2010 with Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp. As happens all the time in Hollywood, development […]
Uhh… of course a T-Rex is one of our finalists. This was a fun experiment. It took me back to the days when I read 8 scripts a day. When you’re looking at that much material within that short of an amount of time, it’s easier to identify what doesn’t work. And the biggest thing […]
