Story. Screenplay. Sale.
:: Never in cinemas. But read the treatment here: Spider-M4n. :: Subplots: What are they? How can they enhance my script? :: Subplot up close: “Back to the Future”. :: The Sherlock Holmes Screenplay. :: 10 (well.. 9) Sci-Fi Heroes who don’t need origin stories. :: Modern writing technology and their speeds (via Kottke) :: High school … Read more
Last month THE MUPPET MAN was voted to the top of the industry’s Most Wanted: The Black List. Screenwriter Chris Weekes talks to Karel Segers about his work, inspiration and what makes an attention-grabbing screenplay. They wouldn’t listen to him in Australia, so Chris Weekes moved to New York, where BITTER AND TWISTED, his debut … Read more
Jack Brislee reviews “Writing Dialogue for Scripts” by Rib Davis A & C Black Publishers Ltd. London 2008. 206 pages. ISBN 978-1-408-10134-6 Price: US $16 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rib Davis is a playwright, oral historian, author, director and community arts worker. Sixty of his scripts have been performed on stage, screen and radio and he … Read more
Every first Tuesday of the month, we publish a structural breakdown of a popular film. This month we did Avatar, last month you voted for Shaun of the Dead. Pick a film you know well or one you can watch over the next two weeks, so we can compare notes. ____________________________________________ [poll id=”3″] Thank you … Read more
With movie executives making decisions in split seconds and people’s attention spans decreasing frighteningly rapidly (is this sentence getting a little long for you, already?) surely Twitter must be offering screenwriters a massive opportunity. Seriously, I think it does. I am one of the gazillion followers of Stephen Fry and Nia Vardalos. Perhaps I haven’t been in the game … Read more