Script Analysis: “The Social Network” — Part 1: Scene By Scene Breakdown Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this weekly series is a deep structural and thematic analysis of each script we read. Our daily schedule: Monday: Scene-By-Scene Breakdown Tuesday: Major Plot Points Wednesday: Sequences Thursday: Psychological Journey Friday: Takeaways Today: Scene-By-
Movie Trailer: “Every Thing Will Be Fine” Written by Bjørn Olaf Johannessen One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on? IMDb Release Date: 2 April 2015 (Germany)
Movies You Made: “The Puppeteer” March is Movies You Made month at Go Into The Story where we feature the work of independent filmmakers. Today: The Puppeteer, written and directed by Martin Suchalla. CAST Peter Sura Christian Mueller Carolina Thiele Paul Miserius CREW Writer, Director, Producer: Martin Suchalla Director of Photography: Lukas Lukincic Editing: Magnus
On Writing “Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it’s about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.” — Mordecai Richler
Daily Dialogue — March 9, 2015 JACK: Who is that, Captain? HOOK: It’s Peter Pan. Has it been three days? ’Tis true, Peter, time does fly…and so do you, I see. How did you ever manage to fit into those smashing tights again, Peter? PETER: Hand over my son now and you and your
Go Into The Story Week In Review: March 2-March 8, 2015 Links to this week’s most notable posts: Chuck Jones’ Rules for Writing “Road Runner” Cartoons Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Reunion Go Into The Story Interview: Brad Ingelsby Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: The Social Network Great Character: Johnny Boy (Mean Streets) Great Scene: The
Interview: Brad Ingelsby (2008, 2012 Black List) [The movie Run All Night rolls out in theaters on Friday, March 13, reason enough to reprise my March 2013 interview with the movie’s screenwriter Brad Ingelsby.] Brad Ingelsby is one busy writer with at least six projects in various states of development and production including Hold on to
Screenwriting News (February 23-March 8, 2015) Dave Andron adapting science fiction drama novel “Stone Rider” for Working Title Films. Michael Berg adapting children’s fantasy book “Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of Nimh” for MGM. Jeff Buhler sells supernatural thriller spec script “Descendant” to Lotus Entertainment. Diablo Cody rewriting comedy “Barbie” for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Christopher
Writing Groups Through a combination of suggestions from the GITS community and Wendy Jane Cohen, here is a list of links to writing groups: LOS ANGELES AREA Dramatica Writers Group (Burbank, CA) Ink Tank Group (Burbank/DTLA) Hollywood Write Club (Hollywood, CA) Script It Writers Group (Los Angeles, CA) Sunday Night Screenwriter’
Great Scene: “The Conversation” The Protagonist’s paranoia turns out to be real when a woman is murdered. A great scene from the 1974 movie The Conversation, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. IMDb: Harry Caul (Gene Hackman), a private surveillance expert in San Francisco, has been hired by the Director to follow
Interview (Video): Riley Stearns and Mary Elizabeth Winstead A DP/30 interview with Faults writer-director Riley Stearns and actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead. A trailer for the movie: You can rent or buy Faults on iTunes or Vimeo. Declare Your Independents! Support indie movies and check out Faults! Comment Archive
Daily Dialogue — March 8, 2015 — Point Break (1991), screenplay by W. Peter Iliff, story by Rick King and W. Peter Iliff The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Chase. Trivia: Officially uncredited (because of an unresolved issue with the Writers Guild of America), James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow re-wrote the final script together. Dialogue
Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Reunion The Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Reunion. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997) The usual drill: * Copy/paste dialogue from IMDb Quotes or some other transcript source. * Copy/paste the URL of an accompanying video from YouTube or some other video source. I’d also ask you
Spec Script Deal: “Descendant” Lotus Entertainment acquires supernatural thriller spec script “Descendant” written by Jeff Buhler. From Deadline: The plot follows a couple who are overjoyed by the birth of their son. But as he grows older he begins to show signs of genius-level intelligence, which change him in chilling ways, leaving his
Interview (Part 6): Brad Ingelsby (2012 Black List) [The movie Run All Night rolls out in theaters on Friday, March 13, reason enough to reprise my March 2013 interview with the movie’s screenwriter Brad Ingelsby.] Brad Ingelsby is one busy writer with at least six projects in various states of development and production including Hold on to
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 176th installment of Saturday Hot Links. Today: The We Remember Documentary Filmmaker Albert Maysles Edition. Albert Maysles, Renowned Documentarian and Sundance Veteran, Dies at 88. Film Community Pays Tribute to Albert Maysles. Three hours of interviews with Albert Maysles [videos]. New Films Starring James Franco, Richard Gere
Great Character: Johnny Boy (“Mean Streets”) The Great Character theme for the month: Rebel. Today: Johnny Boy from Mean Streets (1973), screenplay by Martin Scorcese and Mardik Martin, story by Martin Scorcese. Here is Jason Cuthbert’s weekly Great Character post. After grinding out a street smart indie flick called Who’s That Knocking at My
Interview (Written): Riley Stearns and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (“Faults”) The Bitter Script Reader scored an interview with Faults writer-director Riley Stearns and actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Some excerpts: BSR: Do you often get offered roles like this, with this complexity? MEW: No, I don’t think that kind of material comes around very often in general. Just look
Daily Dialogue — March 7, 2015 A helicopter lowers into the scene behind to men driving in a convertible. MEYER: Look out! NERVOUS MOTORIST: What? MEYER: They’ve spotted us. NERVOUS MOTORIST: Who have? MEYER: Don’t stop driving, man, keep going. NERVOUS MOTORIST: What is this? MEYER: Helicopter. They’ve seen us. NERVOUS MOTORIST: What
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: The Social Network Starting Monday, we begin our next installment of the Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis series: The Social Network, nominated for 8 Academy Awards and winner of 3 including Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as the WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. You may download the script here.
Interview (Part 5): Brad Ingelsby (2012 Black List) [The movie Run All Night rolls out in theaters on Friday, March 13, reason enough to reprise my March 2013 interview with the movie’s screenwriter Brad Ingelsby.] Brad Ingelsby is one busy writer with at least six projects in various states of development and production including Hold on to
Video: “BLACKBIRD: Comparing Birdman and Black Swan” More visual and thematic than plot specifics, but still an intriguing comparison: Via Miguel Branco. HT Indiewire.
Twitter Rant: Jeff Willis on the Reality of Spec Script Sales Earlier this week, studio executive Jeff Willis went on a Twitter rant about the reality of spec script sales contrasted to the way the media often reports on them. Reprinted in its entirety by permission. https://twitter.com/jwillis81/status/572479313754255360 On entertainment news sites, the script “sales” they announce
Movie Trailer: “Dark Places” Gilles Paquet-Brenner (screenplay), Gillian Flynn (novel) A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day by a secret society obsessed with solving notorious crimes. IMDb Comment Archive
Movies You Made: “Double Trouble” March is Movies You Made month at Go Into The Story where we feature the work of independent filmmakers. Today: Double Trouble, written and directed by Andreas Climent and André Hedetof. Cast & Crew Producer: Lisette Nilsson Executive Producers: Tobias Roediger & Christian Hallman Directors: Andreas Climent & André Hedetoft
