What are you going to do this weekend? You could spend 15 hard-earned bucks on Geostorm or The Snowman, the investment equivalent of buying snow tires in Los Angeles, or you could read through this weekend’s Amateur Horror Offerings and vote for your favorite! In my opinion, one of these entries stands out from the […]
IT’S MORE ABOUT THE CHARACTERS THAN THE PLOT I used to think plot was the only thing that mattered. If you could follow Blake Snyder’s famous beat sheet and hit every one one of his predetermined page-targets, you’d create a mathematically perfect screenplay. Eventually I realized that where the real power lies is in creating […]
Okay Sci-Fi heads. You got a wild one today. Midnight Special meets Children of Men. Who’s in??? Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: A 16 year-old boy with special powers accidentally kills his father, forcing he and his mother to go on the run to escape authorities. About: This script finished fairly high on the 2015 Black List. […]
Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: In the year 2491, a Citizen Kane-like business mogul attempts to do something that hasn’t been successfully achieved in 80 years – murder a man without getting caught. About: Before Oliver Stone became a visionary director, he was one of the most coveted writers in Hollywood. This was one of his early […]
Get those Horror Amateur Scripts in! This Friday is Amateur Offerings: Horror Edition! E-mail carsonreeves3@gmail.com with a title, logline, genre, and why we should read your horror script – and don’t forget to include a PDF of your screenplay! Genre: Fairy Tale Premise: When a prince sets off on a journey with his princess-to-be to […]
