Screenwriting : Genre-Busting Writer Akela Cooper Is Twisting The Rules On Horror: “I Am Trailblazing For Those Who Want To Do This As A Career” by Ashley Renee Smith

Ashley Renee Smith

Genre-Busting Writer Akela Cooper Is Twisting The Rules On Horror: “I Am Trailblazing For Those Who Want To Do This As A Career”

Good news for horror writers!

“Elevated horror is still the acceptable horror right now. We’ve punched some holes in that with Malignant and M3GAN to make way for B-movies, which I was happy with,” Cooper explains. “You got stuff like Barbarian and Smile, which was half elevated, half B-movie, monster movie, which was cool. Right now, the market seems like a 60/40 split for elevated versus traditional B-horror movie tendencies.”

https://deadline.com/2024/05/akela-cooper-interview-m3gan-1235916083/

Maurice Vaughan

Thanks for sharing the article, Ashley Renee Smith. Akela Cooper is killing it in Horror. "Akela Cooper Is Twisting The Rules On Horror." She found a way to make herself and her scripts stand out among thousands and thousands of Horror scripts. Great article! I'm taking notes.

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