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 […]
Genre: Action-Thriller Premise: (from Black List) When a veteran hitwoman is mysteriously poisoned on her last assignment in Tokyo, she has 24 hours to track down her killer before she dies. About: Before today’s script made the bottom half of last year’s Black List, it got a 25 million dollar production commitment from Netflix… WITHOUT […]
Genre: Action/Adventure Premise: (from IMDB) When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. About: Three years ago, Jurassic World took the world by storm. The movie nobody thought they wanted became a mega-hit, grossing 1.6 billion worldwide. In a […]
