NEW 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 […]

Good Will Hunting has some of the best backstory integration ever in a script. Backstory. It’s essential to every screenplay. Yet so few writers understand how to apply it. Some choke their screenplays with so much backstory, their story suffocates and passes out.  While others add so little, it’s like their characters were born the […]

Genre: Supernatural Drama Premise: Set during the Depression, a widow and her son are visited by a strange man who may have the ability to communicate with the dead.  About: This is the writer’s breakthrough screenplay.  Before this, he was one of the writers on the HBO show, “In Treatment.”  He’s repped over at CAA.  […]

Genre: Romantic Con-edy Premise: A con man teams up with a con woman, but when he falls for her, he must decide which is more important, her or the con. About: This is the directing team behind “Crazy Stupid Love.” They used to be purely writers but look to now be focusing on their directing […]

Genre: Drama Premise: A strange cult kidnaps a girl from a small town and uses a local radio talk show to promote their twisted beliefs.  About: This is the duo who wrote one of my favorite scripts from last year, “When The Streetlights Go On” (finished #2 on last year’s Black List). Not sure if […]