Also – it has a lot of letters in it
Here’s the full press release that Meyers put out. Most of the trades and affiliated websites have run summary articles like the one I linked to earlier, but it’s an easy explanation why none of them include my name – my name isn’t in the release! It does have a brief, albeit extra-pulpy, synopsis of [...]
It begins
Okay, so the cat isn’t entirely out of the bag yet, but it’s got its nose free and is sniffing the air. This article doesn’t mention who wrote 7 Red, but I’ll go ahead and spoil it: it was me The company’s EFM projects include Midnight Sun from producers Eric Morris (Say Uncle) and Ben [...]
Good thing he’s here to tell me these things
Someone in a writer’s community who doesn’t know me reviewed the script for the short film I am going to make, and called it “something that completely ignores the primary principles of good film making.” He added that “it feels like you are totally missing the point of what the “medium of film” is all [...]
Strange Associations
This torturous video (really, click only if your love of music is strong enough to survive this assault) illustrates a point I often try to make about screenwriting books (really, bear with me). While there is great insight and clarity offered by many books out there, it is entirely possible, and in fact incredibly common, [...]
The Price is Right
Last night, I was talking with my screenwriting class, and the topics of low/no-budget filmmaking and digital distribution came up. It was in the context of my Vegas Project, to which I answered I didn’t think those avenues were appropriate for realizing that particular story (I’d like some Hollywood gloss and a tripod, please). But [...]
Affirmation
My long-time buddy Irish knows my writing going back to my very first, very miserable-bad screenplay, and he’s both pretty sharp when it comes to story and pretty willing to speak his mind. He’s one of those trusted readers who usually see the earliest drafts of whatever the latest screenplay is. And in this case, [...]
Dancing with myself
It has been a strange experiment, essentially working with the 25-year-old version of myself as a collaborator. I think I’ve mentioned before that several years ago, I started writing a sci-fi script on a whim – no outline, no sureness of direction, just an image that came into my head during the morning commute through [...]
How to Do ‘First Class’ screenwriting in a comic-book movie
(Full disclosure: I know a couple of the guys who wrote the script for X-Men: First Class. I’d feel the same way about their movie if I knew them or not, but part of the reason to write this is really to thank them for such a great piece of entertainment that could have gone [...]
Adjusted definition of lazy
So far today I’ve dusted some shelves, hung a picture, taken out my busted cable box, sketched out a couple more beats for this screenplay idea, had a half-hour workout and taken a twenty-minute walk. That’s after sleeping in late. And yet I persist in thinking of this as a lazy Saturday. I think, because [...]
Let my Cameron go
Did a little outlining of an idea last night, and then followed that up with two pages on that personal screenplay I add to from time to time. On the latter, I am ruthlessly enforcing a lack of my usual discipline; I write scenes without knowing in what order they will appear, and often without [...]