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 […]

Genre: Biopic Premise: A young woman turns 1970s Pittsburgh on its head, opening a string of successful massage parlors and parlaying the profits into a number of business ventures that made her the queen of the city. About: Today’s script is the most controversial script on the 2018 Black List. The project became an instant […]