Spec Script Deal: “Final Score” Fifth Season and Makeready acquire crime thriller spec script “Final Score” written by Will Hettinger. Via Deadline:
Page One: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (2011) Screenplay by Steven Zaillian, novel by Stieg Larsson
30 Things About Screenwriting: Living and writing in L.A. Let me say up front, there are advantages for a screenwriter to live in or near Los Angeles. Here are a few key ones:
Spec Script Deal: “Three Hitmen and a Baby” Lionsgate acquires action comedy spec script “Three Hitmen and a Baby” written by Dave Matalon and Matt Altman. Via Deadline:
30 Things About Screenwriting: Stacking projects One key to the craft: Learn how to manage several projects at once.
Spec Script Deal: “Love of Your Life” Amazon MGM acquires drama spec script “Love of Your Life” written by Julia Cox. Via Deadline:
30 Things About Screenwriting: Know your genre If you want to write in a genre, you’re wise to immerse yourself in it.
Spec Script Deal: “Out There” Netflix acquires science fiction thriller spec script “Out There” written by Shane Van Dyke, Carey Van Dyke and Ian Levy. Via Deadline:
Page One: “The Gentlemen” (2019) Screenplay by Guy Ritchie, story by Guy Ritchie & Ivan Atkinson & Marn Davies
30 Things About Screenwriting: Facing the odds How to sustain creativity in the face of considerable odds against success.
The Business of Screenwriting: Trailer Moments, Set Pieces and Bits Of Business (BOBs) You may have read countless screenwriting books. Attended seminars. Taken courses. But I doubt if you have stumbled across these three…
Create a Compelling Protagonist Workshop and develop your story’s Protagonist in my one-week online class which begins Monday, November 4th.
30 Things About Screenwriting: When something happens… something ELSE happens The dynamic dual nature of a screenplay universe.
30 Things About Screenwriting: Immerse Yourself in Cinema If you want to write movies, you need to love movies. And that love ought to manifest itself in a thorough, longstanding, and passionate…
Great Scene: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” Many of the best movie scenes are payoffs to plot elements that have been set up earlier in the story. Often the set-up and payoff involves…
Page One: “Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers” (1989) Written by Michael Jacobs & Dominique Othenin-Girard and Shem Bitterman, characters by John Carpenter and Debra Hill
30 Things About Screenwriting: There are no screenwriting rules There are guidelines, conventional wisdom, patterns, and principles… but no rules.
Screenwriting 101: Shane Black “I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself that way, if I saw the movie in theater…
30 Things About Screenwriting: Write what they’re buying or sell them your dream There are many writing paths. Here are two of them.
On Writing “If you don’t know what to write, ask your story, ‘What are you trying to tell me?’ Ask that and wait. There will be an answer.”
