I’m moving through an incredibly busy time right now… The short ROOT OF THE PROBLEM (I think that’s going to be the name) is days away from being done. Then off to the fests. Go go short! Director Ryan Spindell has done a kick ass job and really poured his heart into the project. It [...]
Ideas need to be SIMPLE and COMPLEX. They need to be NEW yet FAMILIAR. Why? because it’s safe and Hollywood LOVES safe (sequels, projects based on already-established properties, same actors and actresses, same fonts, same one-sheets, same SFX houses, and on… and on…). Prometheus is getting panned for some shoddy story-telling and putting in motion [...]
Over the past few months, I’ve re-worked Bockscar and Osiris. Osiris, as you probably (do not) recall was one of the first scripts I ever wrote. Basically, a deep space tanker gets pegged by a rogue meteorite, the crew has to abandon in the middle of nowhere in a small shuttle, and they eat each [...]
A simile is where one thing is LIKE another. A metaphor is where one thing IS another. Simile: The sun, like a diamond in the sky. Metaphor: The sun, a burning match in the sky. In screenwriting, you have to often describe things that are blah. Remember, it’s all about an economy of words. Getting [...]
I’m very protective of my time. I have to be. At any given moment, I’m juggling a bowling ball, a flaming torch, a broken bottle, a sledge hammer, and a kitten. When I work, I’m surrounded with all manner of distraction. The key is to be self-aware. To know how to USE THE DISTRACTIONS in [...]
Well this drama is a bore, And I don’t wanna play no more. Finished version ten of Bockscar Odyssey last night. Bad title. Working on it. Version ten was complete literally to the day of completion of version one and almost two years since my initial notes / thoughts. What did we gain with a [...]
I’ve been a busy busy bee. Finished a long pass on BOCKSCAR. Re-wrote THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM a few times. Finished a long treatment called EXITUS. Started on a revision of a treatment called PARCHED. Bockscar took a while because we intro’d time-travel into the mix. It made it much more complicated — yet [...]
A decorated bomber pilot and his crack crew are sent on a dangerous journey across the galaxy to deliver a weapon that will end an interstellar war. But when a traitor (working for the very people that sent them into battle) seizes control and turns the weapon back towards Earth, new alliances are born and [...]