2017 Lists As you attempt to revive yourself after yesterday’s New Year’s Eve festivities, why not take a few moments to get in touch with your inner…
Script Analysis: “Get Out” — Part 1: Scene By Scene Breakdown Read the script for the hit social thriller movie and analyze it all this week.
On Writing “Young writers often confuse dialogue with conversation, under the assumption that the closer you get to reality, the more convincing you…
Daily Dialogue — January 1, 2018 Eve Gill: Any sign of the police? Jonathan Cooper: No, no sign. Looks like we’re getting away with it. Eve Gill: Good. Jonathan Cooper: How…
More Movies Like This, Please: 2017 List I started something in 2012. Whenever I saw a new movie I liked, I would jump onto Twitter, identify the movie, then simply tweet: “More…
Interview (Video): Alvin Sargent Conversation with veteran screenwriter whose movie credits run the gamut from Paper Moon and Ordinary People to Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man…
Daily Dialogue — December 31, 2017 Ted the Bellhop: A block of wood. Chester: [raps it with his knuckles] Continue. Ted the Bellhop: Three nails. Norman: Why three nails…
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Flashback Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,516 consecutive days and counting.
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 322nd installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Interview (Written): Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan A conversation with the screenwriters of the movie Chappaquiddick.
The next Go Into The Story Reading and Analysis Script: “Get Out” Read the script for the hit “social thriller” and analyze it next week.
Interview (Audio): Guillermo del Toro A conversation with the writer-director of ‘The Shape of Water’.
Script To Screen: “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” A great fight scene from the 2000 movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, screenplay by Hui-Ling Wang and James Schamus and Kuo Jung Tsai…
Daily Dialogue — December 29, 2017 “Everybody’s having fun out here. They drinking, they fighting, they pissing on the streets. It’s New Year’s Eve. They loving the ladies.”
Reader Question: How do I make supporting characters and interesting? One sign of a well-written script: Strongly detailed secondary characters.
“What Being an Editor Taught Me About Writing” Article by a Random House editor has a lot of takeaways for writers in general… and screenwriters.
Script To Screen: “Cool Hand Luke” A key scene from the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke, screenplay by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson, novel by Donn Pearce.
The Business of Screenwriting: Commencement of Principal Photography When your movie officially starts production, that triggers a writer’s payday.
Pixar: Scrapped Film Ideas Recently released video shows how far Pixar filmmakers are willing to go to find the right story… and we should, too.
