An excerpt from my script review for Weapons which will be available 01/20/26:
3.) Quality of Characters
Before we go too far into this…
Maddie’s voice over in the beginning.
She opens the story, but then...
An excerpt from my script review for Anaconda which will be available 01/13/26:
2.) Plot Stability
This felt very Jaws like, in that there’s a lot of eerie shit going on and we don’t...
An excerpt from my script review for KPop Demon Hunters which will be available 12/31/25:
https://youtu.be/LW9QJIT_T-A
Summer 2025. New Smyrna Beach, FL.
Now if you remember the previous family summer vacation we witnessed the glory...
An excerpt from my script review for Is This Thing On? which will be available 12/22/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
I forget exactly where I read it, but this is loosely based on...
An excerpt from my script review for The Cabin in the Woods which will be available 12/08/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Have you ever stopped to think that a title works as a...
An excerpt from my script review for The Running Man which will be available 11/19/25:
2.) Plot Stability
With a few minor exceptions, this script follows the 1987 version of the film pretty closely.
One...
We break scripts down the Monday after its opening weekend. Read detailed reviews and see what current writers selling scripts are doing right, and sometimes wrong.
I could have sworn I reviewed the first Creed movie, but I guess I was mistaken as it was Hank who reviewed only the script.
I’ve had Creed 2 on the docket to see...
I’m starting this review off telling you that I loved this movie. And that is shocking for a bunch of different reasons. One being the trailers for this looked ridiculous. That mostly...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Wonder Woman (2004) - Unproduced - Laeta Kalogridis which will be available 05/04/18:
Initial Thoughts
I personally thought Wonder Woman (2017) was an important, but flawed, film....
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Anon which will be available 05/10/18:
What Needs Work
-- I am also writing a similar noir-like detective story (though mine is a comic series, not a...
Hi all.
Bit of a change up next week.
Monday 10/8
Training Day by David Ayer
Logline: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue...
An excerpt from our guest script review for The Gambler which will be available 12/28/14:
Marketability of Idea
As a re-make of the 1974 film of the same name, there is some "brand awareness"...
An excerpt from my script review for Blackhat which will be available 05/03/16:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Overall the dialogue wasn’t bad, except for one major exception.
Lien.
Stereotyping Dialogue
Chen was Chinese, but it’s cited he...
An excerpt from my script review for Flatliners which will be available 10/09/17:
2.) Plot Stability
This was one of those that scripts that, even at over 100 pages, I didn’t constantly check what...