Watch Scriptshadow on Sundays for book reviews by contributors Michael Stark and Matt Bird. We try to find books that haven’t been purchased or developed yet that producers might be interested in. We won’t be able to get one up every Sunday, but hopefully most Sundays. Here’s Michael Stark with his review of “King of […]
On the last Friday of every month, I choose an amateur script submitted by you, the readers of the site, to review. If you’re interested in submitting for Amateur Fridays, send the genre, the title, the premise, and the reason I should read your script to Carsonreeves3@gmail.com. Note that your script will be posted online […]
Genre: Horror BiopicPremise: A biopic of Edgar Allan Poe’s life.About: This is Sylvester Stallone’s passion project which he’s been trying to make for 30 years. He explains, “I keep telling my producer Avi Lerner, ‘Make Edgar Allan Poe!,'” “He says, ‘Does he have a gun?’ ‘No, he doesn’t have a gun’, ‘Can he throw a […]
Genre: Action/ThrillerPremise: A small group of correctional officers and inmates must band together to fend off a mysterious attack when their prison bus is sabotaged on a remote stretch of highway.About: This script originally went into select production companies late last year – which landed the writer, Terrance Mulloy, meetings all over town. This new […]
Genre: Horror/SupernaturalPremise: A strange event results in nearly everyone in the world vanishing into thin air. A small group of survivors find each other and try to figure out what happened.About: Brad Anderson, the director of “Vanishing,” has always been an interesting filmmaker to me, but truth be told his films have left me wanting […]
