Page One: “The Life of Chuck” (2024) Written for the screen by Mike Flanagan, short story by Stephen King
On Writing “Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”
Page One: “Train Dreams” (2025) Screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar, based on the novella by Denis Johnson
Script Analysis: “One Night in Miami” Scene-By-Scene Breakdown Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
Screenwriting 101: Velina Hasu Houston “As an artist, I feel it is important to take what I have learned and feed my energies back into new writers, to encourage their creative…
Go Into The Story Interview: Allan Durand Allan Durand’s original screenplay “Willie Francis Must Die Again” is an amazing real-life story and a script that won Allan a 2012 Nicholl…
Script Analysis: “Miles Ahead” — Scene By Scene Breakdown Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
Page One: “No Other Choice” (2025) Screenplay by Park Chan-wook & Lee Kyoung-mi & Don McKellar & Jahye Lee, novel by Donald E. Westlake
Go Into The Story Interview: James DiLapo James DiLapo’s original screenplay “Devils at Play” not only won the young screenwriter a 2012 Nicholl fellowship, it also landed on the…
Script Analysis: “Mudbound” — Scene By Scene Breakdown Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
Script Analysis: “Man Up” — Scene By Scene Breakdown Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
Page One: “Frankenstein” (2025) Written for the screen by Guillermo del Toro, based on “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley