Genre: Drama/Family/Fantasy Premise: An ambitious man watches his life pass him by while sacrificing his dreams to help others. Feeling like a failure later in life, he tries to commit suicide, only to have an angel show him what the world would’ve been like had he never existed. About: Directed by the great Frank Capra […]

Genre: Western Premise: The story of a slimy town marshal who saved the town of Revelation, Wyoming with the help of a mysterious Jewish gunman. About: Jon Favreau (director of Iron Man) wrote this script while editing the film he’s still probably best known for, Swingers. He and Vince Vaughn really wanted to make it […]

The Black List is here! I wish I could write some big fancy opening but I’m busy looking at multi-million dollar houses in the hills I’m going to buy once I win the California Mega-Lottery tonight. So here are the script loglines and my thoughts on each!  What do you guys think?  Too much cancer? […]

Genre: The Hobbit – Fantasy.  The Returned – Supernatural (TV Pilot) Premise: (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug) The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. (The Returned) A group of people who died in a horrific accident in a remote town, begin […]

Guess whaaaaaat? There’s a super-sneaky surprise in these offerings. I’m not going to tell you what it is until I review the winning script. But it’s going to be a doozy! — Read the following amateur scripts and voice your opinions and constructive criticisms in the comments section of Saturday’s Amateur Offerings Weekend post! Good […]