I'm making myself a list of scripts to analyze and study. What do y'all think are some of the best Blacklist scripts from the last few years (or, really, any script)?
Lay 'em on me!
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One mans meat is another mans poison. I would choose Blacklist scripts, you personally are most interested in. Scott Myers @IntoTheStory has website on Blacklist scripts. Better still post your own scripts.
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Recent? “The Post” by L Hannah. She has a simple breezy style. Minimum words. Maximum impact.
Fan of action? Checkout Richard Wenk, “The Equalizer”.
And i guess anything by Max Landis.
Thanks Debbie Croysdale I have about 10 years of Blacklist scripts, but not familiar with a lot of them. I want to analzye/break down at least 1/week for the next few weeks, so looking for recommendations of ones that folks think are truly stellar.
Dan MaxXx - thank you! I'll see if I've got and/or can find those!
Thanks Laura Scheiner ! Those are really great resources, but I actually already have a billion scripts in my collection (well, 1,889). I'm trying to figure out where I want to dive in for this intense study project and what is out there that I should read that I haven't got in my collection.
Gone Girl is pretty awesome imho
Willem Lodewijk Elzenga and Keith A Jessop - thank you! Tom Dunham Great suggestion! I just read an article about Taylor Sheridan and went in search of that and Sicario, so will definitely read those!
Read mine and tell me how much it looks like a 5th grader wrote it. I like reading the first 30 pages of a script in the AM and then see if I think of it the rest of the day. I know it is good when I keep wonder about....all day.
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LOL RC Armstrong and all good points, CJ Walley (and I'll check out the link. Curious.) And, yes, agree re spec v. production. I try to avoid reading production drafts (or "scripts" dumped on the web that are someone's transcription into script form from a movie, posing as the original draft. so frustrating to run ac those!
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All my ideas are pretty much stolen ideas from someone else anyways. I may read a poorly written story and love a few scenes, or the start of a good scene. If its good I applaud it. If it is superior I steal it. Kidding.
Julie: I like Taylor Sheridan, particularly Wind River. It's a brilliant script and film. Also Nightcrawler by writer/director Dan Gilroy is great.