A fellow screenwriter who burst out of nowhere with a 750k sale returns with his newest spec, which sold last month. Genre: Crime/Drama/ThrillerPremise: A washed up hitman is pulled back into the game when his estranged son accidentally gets tangled up in a bad situation with his former employer.About: Brad Ingelsby jumped onto the scene […]

Hollywood Reader reading a non-dramatized script. I can’t take it any longer. I can’t take reading all these scenes that are so…….BAD! Scenes that just sit there. Scenes where nothing happens. Scenes where characters babble. Scenes that only dole out exposition. Scenes without conflict. Scenes without DRAMA! Ah-ha! There’s the root of our problem! No […]

Another Black List sci-fi thriller makes it way to Scriptshadow. But how does the screenplay hold up to other recent sci-fi thrillers on the site? Genre: Sci-FiPremise: (from Black List) An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man […]

An old friend drops by Scriptshadow to review a screenplay from one of the biggest writers in the world, Cormac McCarthy! Carson here.  Lots of interest in today’s script.  I was going to review it but I know next to nothing about Cormac McCarthy.  I knew if I was going to do this right, I […]