Genre: Dramedy Premise: (from Black List) A grieving thirteen-year-old girl hires a terminally ill, acerbic philosophy professor to prevent flunking the seventh grade. What begins as a homework assignment blossoms into an unlikely friendship and a new appreciation for life that neither will forget. About: This script finished with 17 votes on last year’s Black […]

Genre: Crime – Contained Thriller Premise: In downtown Los Angeles, a hospital for high-level criminals masquerades as an old hotel. About: Hotel Artemis comes from writer Drew Pearce, who wrote Iron Man 3 and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. Keep in mind that both of those films were directed by writers (Shane Black and Christopher McQuarrie […]

Genre: Science Fiction Premise: A biologist and her team travel into a mysterious cancerous-like bubble in the forest where the laws of biology no longer apply. About: Celebrated novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland made waves with his first feature film in 2016, Ex Machina. This is his follow-up, which stars Natalie Portman. The film has […]

Is it possible to love a title as much as I love “Neptune Beach?” No idea if the script’s any good. I’ll leave that up to you guys. If it isn’t, I may just buy that title from the writer. We’ve got a pretty nice variety of scripts this weekend, so I hope you guys […]

What’s in a description? Character descriptions (or “character introductions”) are one of the easiest ways to know if you’re dealing with a seasoned writer or a newbie. So what I did was I went back through 9 scripts to find you 10 protagonist introductions. What I discovered is that, as you’d expect, different writers have […]