Writing a slow script that’s actually good is hard. So thank God Scriptshadow is going to show you how to do it, once and for all! A few weeks ago I reviewed a movie (or was it a script?) that moved at the pace of a continental drift. At the end of the review, I […]

Spec sale alert! Genre: Thriller Premise: A young teacher gets kidnapped and tossed into a car trunk but when the car finally stops and she gets out, there is nobody around. This begins a year long investigation into what happened to her. About: This script was part of a heated bidding war won by Searchlight. […]

“Am I, like, getting executed or a root canal?” You may have glanced at the weekend’s box office, saw that some low-budget Chris Pratt movie miraculously climbed its way to the top of the heap, a la Alex Honnold in Taipei, before going back to your TikTok scrolling. But if you’re a screenwriter, you should […]

How slop started with special effects and eventually crept its way into screenwriting.  And how you can inoculate yourself against the virus. I was muscling through a particularly successful spate of procrastination the other day when I stumbled upon this tweet: “You can go back and observe that Season 1 of Stranger Things actually had […]

Genre: Action Thriller Premise: When a group of cops get a tip that 150k of drug money is stashed at a house, they go to pick up the “rip.” But once they find out that it’s actually 20 million dollars, a series of events that include a cartel coming to take them down and secrets […]