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Scott Myers

02 Dec 2013

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“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it!”

— Roald Dahl

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How Much Character Work is Enough?

In theory, I don’t think you can do too much character development. Most scripts I read that aren’t good enough suffer because the characters are too thinly drawn, not complex enough to be compelling or interesting. But Scott, I’m writing a genre piece, not “War and Peace.

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“If you give an actor an honest role, they’ll want to play it, and they’ll know how to play it. When I showed St. Vincent to Jack Nicholson, he said, ‘This is an actable piece.’ I spent a lot of time thinking, ‘What does that mean?’ What an

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Netflix preemptively acquires horror thriller spec script "Canopy" written by Brandon Feldman. Via Deadline: Comped to films like Apex, Predator and The Shallows, Canopy follows a botanist searching for a rare medical cure in the uncharted Amazon canopy who must survive a terrifying, undiscovered apex predator after she

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