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 […]

Genre: Sci-fi/Comedy Premise: (from Black List) In the 1950s, a manufacturing company stirs up controversy when they publish a user’s manual to a time machine called the Gadabout TM-1050. About: Today’s script finished number 37 on last year’s Black List with 9 votes. The idea came through Safe House (“Edge of Tomorrow”) and Sony, and […]

Genre: Thriller Premise: A murderous couple in hiding is discovered by the FBI and must take their teenaged son, who has no idea about their past, on the run. About: Andrew Marlowe has the right idea. Write a few big blockbuster features (Air Force One, End of Days), then, when you realize that surviving the […]