Title: ”Based on a True Story” Genre: Comedy Feature Logline: A struggling screenwriter recruits his writer friends to help him turn his fictional heist script into a True Story in the hopes it’ll make it more marketable. Scene Setup: Our protagonist, Andrew, is trying to convince his writer friends to help him act out the […]

Tomorrow, I’ll be reviewing the winner of Scene Showdown! But today, I want to look at one of the scenes that didn’t make the Top 5. Obviously, there were a ton of scenes that didn’t make the cut and I wish I could break down all of them. I chose this specific scene because it’s […]

I’m swamped trying to put the October newsletter together so today I’m re-posting my script review for Megalopolis. Enjoy! Genre: Drama/Event/touch of sci-fi Premise: An architect in a futuristic New York City tries to create utopia with a new mini-city. About: One of the more famous scripts in Hollywoodland, this is Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating […]

Genre: Slasher Premise: In the cutthroat world of K-POP, a group’s debut is threatened when someone begins to violently attack its members. About: This script finished on last year’s Black List. The writer, Lynn Q. Yu, came up with the idea during the pandemic when she went down the K-pop rabbit hole after watching Netflix’s […]

I know some of you are going to be upset with me that I’m not reviewing Megalopolis. But look. The one thing I can’t stand is purposeful disregard for screenwriting. When they, the writer, believe they’re so above the fold, that they can disregard all convention and write whatever the heck comes to mind. Who […]