Genre: ComedyPremise: A married father accidentally switches bodies with his single best friend. Hilarity ensues.About: Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (writers of The Hangover) I believe sold this on the eve of that film’s success, but I’m not positive about that. They may have sold it a little earlier. Lucas and Moore wrote together for […]

Genre: ComedyPremise: (actual logline sent) Two slackers get a job at a funeral home, but accidentally misplace the body of a distinguished senator and get wrapped up in a wild chase trying to find it in time for the funeral.About: George Chatzigeorgiou, the writer, is from Greece. Yeah baby. Scriptshadow goes international today. — Every […]

Welcome. Come one. Come all. To the Second Not Exactly Annual Reader Top 25 List. It’s been awhile since our first list. All you need to do is read through it to see that. Most of the scripts on there have already been made. Which means it’s facelift time. Now, as far as what this […]

Genre: Spy/ThrillerPremise: The true story of how the CIA, with help from Hollywood, used a fake movie project to smuggle hostages out of Tehran during the 1979 hostage crisis.About: Argo, which finished high on 2010’s Black List, is Ben Affleck’s next directing project. The script is based on an article written in Wired Magazine which […]

Genre: Drama/Mystery/Procedural/Love StoryPremise: An arsonist begins to fall for a woman while being pursued for an accidental murder he committed during his latest arson.About: The Arsonist’s Love Story was a lower-half 2010 Black List script. Though I don’t know this for sure, I believe the writer, Lovejoy, wrote it as an undergrad at NYU.  Lovejoy […]