The secret to writing a great screenplay with the least amount of effort. Jayne Mansfield, star of the 1963 film, “Promises Promises” I’m always thinking of new ways to crack the screenwriting code. Screenwriting is funny in that, at its core, it’s simple. Write a story with a beginning, middle, and end. Make sure it’s […]

Is 42.6 Years, from the co-writer of “The Menu,” the next “Passengers?” (The script not the movie) Genre: Sci-Fi/Rom-Com Premise: After waking up from a failed experimental lifesaving procedure in which he was cryogenically frozen for 42.6 years, a young man realizes he wants his ex-girlfriend back. He’ll have to overcome the fact that while […]

Genre: Contained Thriller Premise: A young diver heads deep into the ocean to try and retrieve his diver-father’s remains but in the process gets swallowed up by a whale and has the time it takes for his air to run out (roughly 2 hours) to escape. About: The rights to this novel sold to Imagine […]

Today’s script uses one of my favorite framing devices in all of screenwriting. Oh, and Andrew Kevin Walker is back! Genre: Drama/Thriller Premise: After one of the world’s best assassins fails to kill his latest target, he must endure the devastating repercussions from his handlers… unless he fights back. About: It’s finally here! This was […]

It’s been many moons since I’ve last been enamored by a script. Or a movie, for that matter. It’s led me to question what the issue is. Is it everybody else?  Do people simply not know how to write anymore? Or is it me? Have my standards become too high? I’ll tell you what I’m […]