What if I told you I could shave dozens of hours of work off your next screenplay? It’s simple.  Stop putting so much time into description! Not long ago, I was consulting on a screenplay. After I sent back the notes, which detailed some plot issues (the script lost a lot of its momentum in […]

A rare spec script that makes it to the big screen! Genre: Courtroom Thriller Premise: When a man is brought onto the jury of a slam-dunk murder case where he realizes he is the murderer, he must decide whether to save himself by convicting an innocent man or to sway the jury to let the […]

Genre: Horror Premise: A group of workers at an Ikea-like store find themselves lost within its maze-like interior after a late-night seance goes wrong. About: Horrorstor was published in 2013. New Republic Pictures optioned the book to turn it into a movie in 2020. Before that, it was conceived as a TV series, with screenwriting […]

We also take a mini-mish-mash-monday look at this weekend’s box office! Genre: Thriller Premise: A woman escapes a brutal attack during an impromptu late-night date and races into the countryside with her attacker hot in pursuit. About: This is writer-director JT Mollner’s second feature film. Before that, he had written and directed four short films […]

And I tell you the screenwriting secret that got the writer the job. This past week, I stumbled upon an interview between Star Wars Theory and Stuart Beattie, the original screenwriter of the Obi-Wan movie. Beattie is best known for penning the Michael Mann Tom Cruise collaboration, Collateral. He was also involved in several of […]