Is today’s short story the next Eternal Sunshine meets Memento meets Primer? Genre: Science-Fiction Premise: In the future, where time-jumping is common, a married couple suspects that an old friend is trying to erase their pasts so that they never meet. About: The short story sale strikes again! This time, writer John Ridley, who won […]
Tonight’s Dinner We have some big players today. Former Amateur Offerings contestants who made some noise. Some people who have done well in contests. And writers whose scripts I’ve personally read and know them to be good. So I expect this weekend to be a hard-fought competition. You know the rules. Read as much as […]
NEW TOP 25 SCREENPLAY REVIEWED IN NEWSLETTER! By now, you should have received a hot-off-the-presses juicy Scriptshadow Newsletter served animal style! Today’s newsletter includes a new Top 25 screenplay that came out of nowhere. I’m talking this is the LAST person I expected to write a Top 25 script. One thing I’ll tell you that […]
Recently, I’ve been reading a lot of consultation scripts with scene issues. Writers are staying inside of their scenes for too long. My advice for this has always been the same. The average scene should be somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5 pages. Anything over that needs justification. If you’re writing a big set piece, that’s […]
Genre: TV Pilot – 1 Hr. Drama Premise: A family is turned upside-down when their flight back from vacation experiences an impossible phenomenon. About: The high-concept network show is back! We’ve got this one premiering on NBC in the fall. And we’ve got a new zombie show, The Passage, also in the fall, coming from […]
