Genre: Thriller Premise: Trapped at a three day personal development retreat, a woman fights to save her husband and herself from being brainwashed by a charismatic self-help guru. About: This script finished with 10 votes on this past year’s Black List. The writer is repped at Verve. Writer: Levin Menekse Details: 107 pages I know, […]

Today I give you TWO new great screenwriting tips to add to your screenwriting tool shed. They’re called “upgrading” and “paralleling,” and The Outsider shows us how to pull them both off. This weekend I decided to take a chance on The Outsider. Why do I phrase it like that? “Take a chance?” Because let’s […]

I was going to search out the Colin Trevorrow draft of Episode 9 and review it but the truth is, I’m kinda sick of Star Wars. I still love it but all the contentious buildup to the final movie exhausted me, as I think it did everyone. There was so much angst and conflict associated […]

Genre: Contained Thriller Premise: After being kidnapped by a psychotic music producer, a guitarist and her drummer boyfriend are forced to record an album in chains while they try to escape his studio prison. Why You Should Read: We were shooting for Misery meets Green Room. Would love to see what the people here at […]

I want to keep giving you inspiration and advice for The Last Great Screenwriting Contest. So here are ten things I commonly see when I’m reading a good script. 1) An unobtrusive writing style – Too many screenwriters want you to know that they’re a WRITER. They want to describe everything beautifully. They want every […]