Genre: Indie ComedyPremise: Two neighboring suburban families are thrown into disarray when the father of one family starts dating the daughter of another. About: This was a huge script a few years ago as it finished Numero Two-o on the 2008 Black List, behind The Beaver and ahead of Butter and Big Hole. Co-writer Jay […]

Hey guys.  So I’ve sent out e-mails to all the longtime Scriptshadow readers, asking for their Top 10 favorite unmade screenplays.  If I didn’t e-mail you and you want to contribute to the list, go ahead and list your top 10 right here in the comments section.  The rules are, if it hasn’t been released […]

Genre: Sci-FiPremise: A geneticist who specializes in cloning risks his reputation and life’s work to save his sick daughter.About: The Keeper Project is a 2009 PAGE Award Bronze Prize winner in the Sci-Fi category. That makes it Top 31 out of 6300 entries. — Every Friday, I review a script from the readers of the […]

F. Scott Frazier broke onto the scene over a year ago with his eerie spec script “The Numbers Station,” which he sold to Content Film. The script is about a man tasked with guarding a strange top secret remote station that ends up getting breached, putting his life in jeopardy. The film is going into […]

Genre: Offbeat ComedyPremise: When a man’s cat is impaled by an arrow, he will go to the ends of the earth (or at least his town) to find the killer. About: Hey, it’s List Week. Murder Of A Cat made last year’s Black List, and it looks to be the writers’ breakthrough screenplay. Before this, […]