So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Which keeps getting longer!!
Revenant is a weirdly sci-fi titled Western adventure about the limits of endurance in pursuit of vengeance. It’s a rip-roaring read. The narrative never quits for a minute.
This is an excellent competition script. The action is clear, the characters are etched in stone, the conflicts between them aren’t open to negotiation. From the word go, it’s a cage match in a wilderness so hostile that hostile is too gentle a word.
Read for a master class in escalation, and how to construct a powerhouse antagonist, a consistently threatening and well-motivated unrepentant bastard.
It’s not long on originality, nothing that happens is a big surprise, the intrigue is in the towering, epic characterizations of men who constitutionally cannot co-exist.
Project recommendation: Recommend.