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 [...]
One of the down-sides to converting a theatrical script into found footage script is that conventions change. Sure, you have OBVIOUS conventions. Generally, one of the characters has a camera. Generally, all of the characters die at the end. The camera almost becomes part of the story. How it’s placed. What it captures. What it [...]
A long long time ago… In a galaxy far far away… I wrote this bad-ass script. First it was called VENTURE, but then, as time went by and people came and went, it was called OSIRIS. I never cared for the title, Osiris, because it was generic. VENTURE is a better title because… It’s mine… [...]
Venture / Void / Osiris is about a group of people who are trapped in a escape shuttle in the middle of space. The story is about how they cope with the predicament. When I wrote it, I thought I was writing a horror movie first, a suspense movie second. Venture (as it was called [...]
He’s a handsome devil, ain’t he: Finished up BELOW THE ICE (this is not to be confused with all of the other postings re: Finished up Below the Ice) and out it goes. This time of year, though, as things come to a virtual standstill, feedback will probably be delayed… maybe all the way ’till [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been in re-write hell for … ohhhh… 3 months now. With the year nearly half-gone, I’ve only completed one script, THE DISCIPLE, which, truth-be-told, was half-written the previous year. First there was a light re-do on THE DISCIPLE. No big whoop. Then 2+ months on BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL which became THE POSSESSED (10+ [...]
Ok… so not my best end of year, medically. Thanksgiving week I had both my knees ‘scoped. Christmas week I had my right shoulder ‘scoped. Yeeee-ow! The shoulder, she’s a screamin’ All sorts of pain. Oh the suffering… the sweet, sweet suffering. The shoulder hurts about 100 times worse than the knees. Apparently, and I’m [...]
Reality’s a bitch. Say your writing The Next Big Thing. A sci-fi story. It takes place in space. Maybe a creature feature on some enormo space-liner that whips around the galaxy at speeds faster than light pushed and pulled by an energy bubble of dark light. Maybe this beauty: (FYI: That beauty is ’The Cygnus’ from Disney’s ‘The Black Hole’) [...]
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.