Genre: Adventure/Comedy Premise: After two fame-seeking Millennials are outed for their plans to fake a sailing adventure blog, no one believes it when they really are ship-wrecked and lost at sea. About: The first half of the story pokes fun at our obsession with fame and lampoons our dependence on smart phones. In the back […]

A script without a theme is like a photograph without a subject. The picture can be well-composed, colorful, sharp, and yet the experience of looking at the photo feels empty. You get no sense of what the photographer was trying to say with the image. “Trying to say,” is a nice way to define theme. […]

Genre: Mystery Premise: (from IMDB) A lavish train ride unfolds into a stylish & suspenseful mystery. From the novel by Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express tells of thirteen stranded strangers & one man’s race to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again. About: Today’s screenplay was written by a writer The Hollywood […]

Genre: TV pilot – Half-Hour Single-Camera Comedy Premise: Follows the adventures of two Los Angeles 6’s trying to make it in a land of 9s and 10s. About: Today’s TV pilot was picked up by the newly branded “Freeform” Channel, which has gone all in on the millennial demographic. Creators Benji Aflalo and Esther Povitsky […]

Genre: Action/Adventure Premise: The military contracts a disgraced Harvard professor who believes in dragons to escort them to a mysterious island where the mythical beasts potentially still exist. About: What else is there to say? It’s another Max Landis script, baby. The one writer still making huge spec sales. This one, to my knowledge, has […]