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Review: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Shooting Script: 7/15/68)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is William Goldman’s first original screenplay. A Western script written in the late-1960s, its style and format nevertheless has more in common with the continuities...
View ArticleReview: Unforgiven (Unspecified Shooting Script: 1992)
Unforgiven, originally written by David Webb Peoples in 1976 as The William Munny Killings, effectively flips the moral conventions of the 1950s era classical Western genre (typified by such...
View ArticleMore Screenwriting 2.0
Last August, I blogged about a paper I presented to the University Film and Video Association called, “Teaching the Digital Screenplay and Its Role in Conception and Execution.” In that paper I began...
View ArticleJohn August’s Courier Prime
This week saw the release John August’s new (free) typeface, Courier Prime: By standardizing around one typeface set at a specific size, we can take advantage of some rules-of-thumb. For example, one...
View ArticleShould We Build Movies Like We Build Houses?
Lately I’ve been thinking about the screenplay as a kind of software and have turned to certain software development processes in search of models for alternative methods of screenplay development...
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Could Validation Board Lead to Better Screen Stories?
I’m currently working on a paper called “Script Development 2.0: Theorizing the Lean Screenplay” that I’ll present at the 2013 Screenwriting Research Network International Conference in August. I’m...
View ArticleVanity Fair: “Will the Spec Script Rise Again?”
Vanity Fair is out with this insightful history of the spec market boom that lasted in Hollywood from 1990 to 2008. A must read for aspiring screenwriters and screenwriting scholars alike. The key...
View ArticleHarrison Ford’s “Raiders” Script
Cinephilia & Beyond has some excellent page scans of Harrison Ford’s shooting script of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ford’s handwritten script analysis notes are evidence of an actor seriously engaged...
View ArticleWill Veronica Mars Kickstarter Campaign Change Film Financing Forever?
As I type this, the numbers are skyrocketing. Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas launched a $2,000,000 Kickstarter campaign hours ago, and more than 10,000 rabid fans have already sent him well past the...
View ArticleUpdate: Veronica Mars and the Future of Lean Film Development
Earlier I posted about the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign that show creator Rob Thomas launched this morning to fund a movie continuation of the TV heroine’s story. Well, that post’s already...
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