I wanna do what Harvey did for screenwriting in the 90s. Since moving back to LA, I’ve been offering up bite-sized reasons for why I returned, but haven’t really gone into any detail. Well, it’s time to go into detail. After the madness that was The Disciple Program, I started getting a lot more e-mails […]
Genre: Animation/Film NoirPremise: In a futuristic world co-habitated by aliens and humans, the last human private eye is hired to investigate the fidelity of a well-known pop star. About: Ray Gunn is an old project that writer-director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) wrote. He’s gone on record as saying […]
Genre: Dark DramaPremise: A down on his luck private eye investigates a notorious gangster and uncovers a brothel that caters exclusively to clients with amputee fetishes.About: About the only thing you’re going to find on writer Kevin Koehler is that he likes to write movie reviews on Amazon.com. Which is strange, because this script was […]
Recently I’ve been talking a lot to John Jarrell, a screenwriter who’s been working in this business for over 20 years, and learning quite a bit from him. When he mentioned he was putting together a class, I told him that I had to promote it on the site, especially since I’ve been getting so […]
Genre: Thriller(?) Premise: (Original Twit-Pitch Logline) A civil war expert and his son must fight to survive a reenactment organized by a dangerous southern cult. About: For those recently joining Scriptshadow, I held a contest a few months back called “Twit-Pitch,” where anyone could pitch me their screenplay on Twitter, as long as it was contained within […]
