My interview with 2022 Black List writer for his script Court 17.

“We’re the first to stare down our rising AI Overlords, but we won’t be the last.” The Hollywood Reporter has been running a weekly series called Strike Diary. It features Hollywood screenwriters and TV writers who anonymously share their thoughts about the strike. …

There are two key stages in the life of a screenplay: There is the selling script and the shooting script. A selling script can be a beautiful thing to behold, every word precise, the balance of black ink to white space pleasing to the eye, the flow of dialogue to…

Screenplay by Roger Kimble, novel by Choderlos de Laclos A trailer for the movie: You may read screenplay here. FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY! Page One is a daily Go Into The Story series featuring the first page of movie and TV scripts from the classic era to contemporary times…

My only Prep: From Concept to Outline workshop of 2023 begins July 10th. Read on for a special offer on my book The Protagonist’s Journey: An Introduction to Character-Driven Screenwriting and Storytelling, an Amazon #1-rated Best Seller in Film and Television. As I say: There is no right way to…

My interview with 2022 Black List writer for his script Court 17. Elad Ziv wrote the screenplay Court 17 which landed on the 2022 Black List. I had the opportunity to chat with Elad about his creative background, writing a Black List script, and the craft of screenwriting. Today in…

Executives privately admit the WGA’s strategy is working. Featured in The Hollywood Reporter yesterday (5/31/23): Writers’ Shut-It-Down Strategy Has Been Effective, Executives Privately Concede. Right now, Warren Leight — the veteran showrunner of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Writers Guild strike captain — is losing sleep to make…

In a recent Screenwriting Master Class course, we had an interesting discussion about the role of Coleman Reese in the movie The Dark Knight. His is a short subplot [only three scenes in the script], but it provides an important narrativfunction. For those of you who may not remember, Reese…

Screenplay by Hui-Ling Wang and James Schamus and Kuo Jung Tsai, based on a book by Du Lu Wang