One thing newbie writers do is to think that their dialogue is so clever (a-la Clerks) that it will carry a movie. It won’t. Movies are about “moving pictures” not “moving pictures of two people talking.” If I want to see two people talking, I can go down to the local Jack in the Box, [...]
Since I’m doing this on the fly, I wanted to get in and out. Here we go with PROJECT UPDATES! 1) 2 0 3 – nobodies really read it! So sad because it’s pretty damn good. Soon, soon. 2) American Monster – it’s a tough one because of it’s graphic nature and the fact that [...]
For all of you folks asking “what’s up with [INSERT TITLE HERE].” Here we go. A blow by blow run-down… On Every. Single. Script.
Two Guys rewrite done, polished, resubmitted, and accepted. Venture. No news is good news. As of earlier this week, it hadn’t been read by the money people. Blue Blood has 3.8M of 5M financing in place. Got an extra 1.2M and wanna make a movie? Boy have I got a deal for you! What’s 1.2M between [...]
Really not a whole lot to say. So instead of one of a ‘lesson-learned’ type of blog entry, it’s time for the /echo on/ PROJECT UPDATES /echo off/.
Look! It’s “Below the Ice”! Click on the link on the left side of the site if you want to read the first 10 pages. In the most desolate locale on Earth, ten crewmembers of the icebreaker Ava Rita battle for survival against a beast brought to the surface when the ocean temperature rises one [...]
That little boy’s name is Stevie. That puppy, the old lady, and little Stevie are about to die: And you can’t do anything about it.
We haven’t done this in a while, so here we go… Things seem to be picking up, in a general sense. I’m off to LA in the near future to meet with several groups of people on different projects.
I gotta whisper ’cause I can’t be too loud.From the song “Lips of an Angel” by Hinder. I didn’t write the song. I wish I did. It is kind of catchy. But, come on, for what other reason would one whisper other than to “not be too loud”? That’s needless exposition.
My spec scripts average over 26,000 words, so I cut myself some slack for the occasional typo. Sure, they annoy me. But in the grand scheme of a 26,000+ word story, 2 or 3 typos doesn’t eat me up too bad. By the time it’s left my hands, I’ve read it 30 times, maybe more. [...]