How They Write A Script: Shane Black

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
1 min readApr 25, 2024

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Shane Black. Black, along with Joe Eszterhaus, drove the spec script frenzy in the late 80s and early 90s. Shane has an interesting approach to writing scripts and it involves a shoe box:

“Well, it’s sort of like being lead by the nose by the process as opposed to having any particular control over it. As ideas occur to me over a period of time, I’ll write down little bits and snippets for scenes and…

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