A good script can open doorways for you, even if it doesn’t make it into production. David S. Goyer (BAFTA/BFI Screenwriters Lecture) This is really true. It’s also why you need a good answer to the question, “What else are you working on?”
Read moreAll this is to say, it looks like The Weinstein Company doesn’t think all that many people want to see Snowpiercer. They don’t think a weirdo dystopian movie with a South Korean director and partially Korean dialogue where one of the main actors (the always excellent Song Kang-ho) is mostly unknown to American audiences and…
Read moreMost of what you think you are conditioned to think. Follow that money trail for revelatory story.
Read moreoscar worthy How to show not tell.
Read moreThe single biggest problem with openings is that writers have a tendency to want to begin at the beginning. They want to start where it all happens first so they don’t leave anything out. But the truth is nothing starts at the beginning, at least not since the time of Adam and Eve. Everything starts…
Read moreMost of what you think you are conditioned to think. Follow that money trail for revelatory story.
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Much like fairy tales, there are two facets of horror. One is pro-institution, which is the most reprehensible type of fairy tale: Don’t wander into the woods, and always obey your parents. The other type of fairy tale is completely anarchic and antiestablishment. Guillermo del Toro on how horror is inherently political as a genre,…
Read morelietame: in case you guys were wondering the reason i was on that site, it was to prove with hard data that if you have a story set in california and your whole cast is white you’re wrong it varies by area but as a local let me tell you, as a californian, seeing a…
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