The worst comedy I’ve seen in years. Genre: Comedy Premise: While bringing Alan to a treatment center, the Wolf Pack is bombarded by a Vegas heavyweight, who tells them that they must bring him their nemesis, Chow, or Doug will be killed. About: Director Todd Phillips shared writing duties on this one with Hangover 2 […]

This is your chance to discuss the week’s amateur scripts, offered originally in the Scriptshadow newsletter. The primary goal for this discussion is to find out which script(s) is the best candidate for a future Amateur Friday review. The secondary goal is to keep things positive in the comments with constructive criticism. Below are the […]

Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send in a PDF of your script, a PDF of the first ten pages of your script, your title, genre, logline, and finally, why I should read your script. Use my submission address please: Carsonreeves3@gmail.com. Your script and “first ten” will be posted. […]

The current rule-bending king – Malick. Art. The essence of purity. It should be intrinsic, effortless, natural. A poem. A painting. A short story. All of it should emerge from that illogical, dreamer part of the brain. Write down whatever exists within the deepest recesses of your mind and then (and only then) have you […]

Before Star Trek Into Darkness, before Lost, JJ Abrams wrote a draft of Superman. This is that draft. Genre: Superhero Premise: A slightly reimagined Superman origin story which includes an enemy from his home planet coming to earth to take him down. About: This is JJ Abrams Superman entry, written in 2002, back when JJ […]