Genre: Action/Adventure Premise: A Robin Hood tale that focuses on his arrow-slinging romantic interest, Marian. About: Pete Barry played the long game with this script, first placing in the Top 25 of the 2016 Launch Pad Competition, and then, in 2017, selling his script to Sony. This is one of those “right place, right time” […]

Genre: TV Pilot – 1 Hour Drama Premise: After a real estate developer accepts a half a million dollar loan from a new friend, he learns that the money comes with lots of attached strings. About: Pitched as a “Hithcockian” thriller, Suspicion is based on a book and adapted for television by Jessica Goldberg, who […]

In one of the most improbable crossovers in recent screenplay memory, Blonde Ambition is “Once” meets “The Social Network.” But is it as good as either of those movies? Genre: Biopic Premise: Set in New York in the 80s, Blonde Ambition tells the story of how Madonna hustled her way to stardom. About: Today we […]

Genre: Crime Drama/Action Logline (from writer): When a routine prison transfer turns into a precarious hostage situation at a rural gas station & grill, a curmudgeonly small-town sheriff on the cusp of retirement must team up with a hardened Native American inmate to dodge gunfire and keep each other alive as a rebellious pack of […]

I was chatting with a screenwriter who’s fairly new to the medium. He’d written a Breaking Bad type pilot that was good. However, it had the potential to be a lot better if he improved his scene-writing. There were too many scenes in the pilot that were treading water. Conversations that didn’t have enough bite […]