Interview (Part 5): Beth Curry My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Spec Script Deal: Untitled David Guggenheim Project Sony Pictures Entertainment acquires an untitled action spec script. Via Deadline:
The Business of Screenwriting: Hurry up and wait The bane of a screenwriter’s existence: They want the script NOW… then they make you WAIT… and wait… and wait…
Page One: ‘Wonder Woman’ (2017) Screenplay by Allan Heinberg, story by Zack Snyder & Allan Heinberg and Jason Fuchs, Wonder Woman created by William Moulton Marston
Interview (Part 4): Beth Curry My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Update: 2020–2021 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 4 New Scripts, 21 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Spec Script Deal: “The Hound” Searchlight Pictures acquires horror comedy spec script “The Hound” written by Lisa Duva. Via Deadline:
Page One: ‘Witness’ (1985) Screenplay by Earl W. Wallace & William Kelley, story by William Kelley and Pamela Wallace & Earl W. Wallace
Interview (Part 3): Beth Curry My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
How They Write A Script: Nancy Meyers “My first draft was exactly 250 pages. I didn’t have brads deep enough, long enough to get through the script.”
Page One: ‘Winter’s Bone’ (2010) Screenplay by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini, novel by Daniel Woodrell
Interview (Part 2): Beth Curry My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Screenwriting 101: Horton Foote “I keep notebooks, and sometimes just a phrase in a notebook will start me off. I never know. I’ve also learned that you can’t really…
Interview (Part 1): Beth Curry My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
On Writing “My favorite ‘trick’ is to stop writing at a point where I know that I can pick up easily the next day. I’ll stop in mid-paragraph, often…
Hero’s Journey as Psychological Journey When we think of the Hero’s Journey, what comes to mind is a geographical adventure. The Heroine starts out in their Ordinary World…
I love that quote, Tyler, I’m definitely saving it. Re “challenging term ahead”: I hear you. At DePaul, it looks we will be teaching remotely for both the winter and spring quarters…
Movie Story Type: Contained Thriller In Hollywood movie circles, there are genres like Horror or Science Fiction, cross genres like Action-Thriller or Drama-Comedy, and…
Great Scene: “North by Northwest” It was one of the scenes which inspired Hitchcock to make the movie.
Page One: ‘WALL·E’ (2008) Screenplay by Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, original story by Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter
