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Wrath of Man is Guy Ritchie's latest film, co-written with Ivan Atkison and Marn Davies and based on the 2004 French film Cash Truck by Nicolas Boukhrief and Éric Besnard, it also sees Ritchie collaborating again with action star Jason Statham who ca...
Thinking up 'The Unthinkable'
The Unthinkable can be described as an existential disaster film. It tells the story of a troubled pianist in Sweden who must return to his childhood village as the country is under attack by a nebulous foreign threat. These attacks extend to the vil...
5 Screenwriting Takeaways: 'Cobra Kai'
The first two seasons of Cobra Kai have been widely praised by fans and critics alike. An extension of The Karate Kid film franchise, the YouTube Premium TV series follows the characters of Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence as they rekindle their ri...
Finding Your Voice
When writing a screenplay, don’t underestimate your voice as a writer. My first spec script, which broke me into the business, was not a typical screenplay by any stretch of the imagination.
Transitions: To "Cut To" or Not to "Cut To"
Transitions are appearing less and less in modern screenplays.
Montages In Screenwriting: When and How to Write a Montage in a Script
Technically speaking, montages are more the domain of an editor, splicing together different scenes to illustrate a passage of time. Montages, however, became such a fixture in the cinematic vocabulary that it’s not unusual to find them in screenplay...
Screenwriting Role Models: Dan O'Bannon
Many talented people helped to make Alien a landmark film, but screenwriter Dan O’Bannon created the blueprint.
Screenwriting Role Models: Paul Schrader
Paul Schrader is one of the most important screenwriters of the twentieth century and helped to define the New Hollywood of the 1970s. Unlike most filmmakers, Schrader didn’t grow up loving movies. In fact, he had not seen one until he was in his lat...
Five Things Writers Can Learn From Ghostbusters
The original Ghostbusters film remains to this day a benchmark for supernatural comedies. It’s a tricky genre to get right and increasingly unpopular among studios due to budgetary concerns. But if you’re going to attempt to write a supernatural come...