Genre: Contained Thriller/Drama + Mystery Genre Premise: (from Black List) A seemingly progressive suburban husband and wife renting their garage through AirBnB become suspicious of their Muslim guests. As they investigate their visitors, they unwittingly trigger events that will forever change the course of human history. About: This script finished on last year’s Black List […]

Genre: Drama-Horror Premise: A married pair of Sudanese refugees are granted a temporary stay in the UK that can become permanent if they can only avoid trouble, a task that becomes problematic when they move into a haunted house. About: This project was held up for awhile due to a snafu with The Weinstein Company. […]

The “A Quiet Place” team has already set up their next project, an adaptation of a short story about Mars colonists. Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi Premise: A small group of Mars colonists are shocked to find out that one of their members can breath the Mars air. About: A Quiet Place nearly took down box office titan […]

Genre: Horror Premise: A PTSD-afflicted Marine must fight for his own survival when he finds himself held captive in the Alaskan wilds by a family with a horrifying secret. Why You Should Read: This script has done well in some notable contests and I’d like to see how it fares in the AOW battlezone. Clocking […]

Type 1 On-the-nose On-the-nose dialogue comes in two flavors. Type 1 is where characters say exactly what they’re thinking. The reason it reads false is because, in real life, people hold back on what they’re thinking. They talk around things instead of about them. If you want to see the truest form of this dialogue, […]