Genre: Indie ComedyPremise: A lonely journalist finds love and inspiration in a quirky, unlikely manner –covering the misadventures of a young boy’s ‘protest’of an animal rights movement.About: New Line picked this up. Energy Entertainment and Broken Road Productions will produce. This was Sachs’ first screenplay. The script landed him on the 2008 Black List with […]

So I’m doing something different next week. I want to give four writers a chance to get some exposure. The only catch is you have to have agency representation and not yet have sold a script. If you meet those requirements, send me your script, your agency, and a logline. I’ll take the four most […]

Genre: Conspiracy ThrillerPremise: A SETI worker receives a mysterious signal from space that motivates a secret organization to try and kill him.About: Media Rights Capital purchased this preemptively in May. Potter and Stravitz are big fans of the genre as they also wrote the script for the remake of “The Boys From Brazil” about the […]

“This sale was completely fucking unprofessional!” Way back a few months ago, the spec script “Prisoners” by first-timer Aaron Guzikowski, made the Hollywood rounds and impressed a bunch of people. Wahlberg attached himself. Not long after that, Christian Bale came on as well. But before putting the script on the market, in order to sell […]

That’s up to you. I think it’s time. I think we all agree it’s time. Inception needs to be reviewed on Scriptshadow. I know this script is out there because they’ve already started shooting it (under a different name). My April Fools Day joke was convincing enough that I’ve literally received a thousand requests for […]