In today’s post I reveal something that very few screenwriters know – which is the number one thing that leads to a boring script.  And it’s going to shock you. This weekend’s weak box office is relevant to today’s conversation – specifically the box office failure that was I.S.S. – because I’m going to talk […]

One of my favorite characters from 2023 (Duncan Wedderburn in Poor Things) Week 1 Post Week 2 Post Okay, it is WEEK 3 in our WRITE TWO SCRIPTS IN 2024 Screenwriting Challenge. Week One was playing with possible concepts. Week Two was solidifying a concept. And now we’re on to Week Three – FIGURING OUT […]

Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: Told in real-time, a man who recently broke into Area 51 stops at a motel and begins to execute his plan to send the incredible footage he took to the five biggest news sources in the country. About: This script finished Top 15 on the newest iteration of the Black List, a […]

The short story sale only took 45 years to happen Genre: Dystopian/Sci-Fi Adjacent Premise: 100 teen boys participate in an annual event that forces them to do a death walk until there is only one left. About: Okay, I’m cheating a little. This isn’t technically a short story. But it’s a short story in Stephen […]

I tell you how The Beekeeper script sold for a million bucks and share with you some screenwriting lessons from Anatomy of a Fall and Self-Reliance January is always a funky month in the box office schedule. It used to be a dumping ground for studio movies that tested terribly but, these days, if you […]