I feel like grabbing you by your ears right now and screaming, “I’m not fucking interested!”. Instead, I’m going to drive home and do some accounting.
Nightcrawler (2014) dir. Dan Gilroy
Writer friends, file under: how to structure, how to character, how to stakes, how to arc, how to escalate.
Also written by Dan Gilroy. Thank you, Dan Gilroy!
Here’s the pdf of this amazing script. Nightcrawler at la screenwriter.