My favorite writer is back! John Jarrell. You may remember him from the awesome interview I did with him a few months ago. The guy has a ton of screenwriting knowledge and unlike us hack bloggers, the man’s actually been in the thick of it for 20 years, fighting the good screenwriting fight, landing those […]
Amateur screenplay Scion had a promising first ten pages, enough to get a few dozen e-mails of endorsement. Let’s find out how the rest of the script held up. 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 […]
Keeping in mind that adapting The Hobbit is probably one of the tougher screenplay jobs this side of the slugline, how did Jackson and his co-writers fare? Genre: Adventure Premise: Bilbo Baggins reluctantly joins a band of dwarves who go on a quest to reclaim their kingdom, which has since been taken over by a […]
Today we go racing back to Black List’s past to see if a forgotten screenplay can sneak its way back onto the Hollywood Highway. Genre: Action/Romance/Drama Premise: A high-speed chase on the streets of LA told through multiple points of view. About: Iranian-born Massy Tadjedin penned today’s script, which landed on the 2007 Black List […]
100 screenplays ripe for Hollywood’s attention. Black List 2012 is here today! edit: Black List posted – Thoughts on list have been added below… Okay, so today’s review has been postponed until tomorrow because the Black List is coming out today. Franklin’s doing things a little differently this year, tweeting out the Black List scripts […]
