Come one, come all, and vote for the best script!
I know it’s getting a little confusing around here with all these showdowns so let me bring you up to speed. Today’s post has nothing to do with the Blood & Ink Showdown.
A couple of months ago, we had a MEGA-SHOWDOWN. This was a general screenplay contest where I picked my favorite submitted scripts and put them up for a vote. You guys voted for your favorites, which then each had their own day, giving you an informed second vote for the top 4. You picked Hard Labor as the winner, which I then reviewed. I would then go on to review all the finalists.
However, a lot of scripts just missed the Mega-Showdown cut so I thought it would be fun to do a showdown with the top 5 entries that didn’t make it. I have not read these scripts from cover to cover yet. So, there’s a chance that one of them might even be better than the winner, Hard Labor.
This weekend, we’re going to vote for your favorite. And then either on Monday or Tuesday, I will review the winning script.
If you’ve never done a showdown before, they’re easy. Read as much or as little of each entry as you want. Then go to the comments and write in the title of your favorite entry. You can also share why you liked it, if you want to. These showdowns double as a way to educate screenwriters and help writers understand how audiences are receiving their material.
I was originally going to do two of these showdowns (a ‘third wave’ next weekend). But I realized that my logline bar has risen so high since the Blood & Ink pitches that a lot of these other entries just weren’t good enough.
You have until 11:59pm Pacific Time on Sunday to vote. So, let’s get started!
Title: Departure Gate
Genre: Thriller
Logline: A hitman who lives entirely on airplanes falls in love with a fellow passenger, but in the ‘outside world’ he risks capture by the relentless DEA Agent pursuing him.
Title: Breakaway
Genre: Action/Thriller
Logline: A disgraced Tour de France champion must deliver a package across a riot-torn city in two hours, or a young hostage dies.
Title: KINDLE
Genre: Thriller / Contained Thriller
Logline: Trapped in a shed as a bushfire approaches, a man suspects he didn’t end up there by accident.
Title: Starcrossed
Genre: Thriller/Dark Comedy
Logline: A long-suffering sous chef seeks revenge after a chauvinistic food critic’s zero-star review destroys her debut restaurant – and everything is on the menu.
Title: ENEMY
Genre: Action-Adventure
Logline: After one of their own murders a Comanche boy, a skirmish leaves a small group of Spanish cavalrymen stranded without horses deep in hostile territory, facing the dangers posed by vengeful warriors, nature and each other.
