Lancelot Link: Another Link

Lancelot Link Thursday! This week's links to some great screenwriting and film articles, plus some fun stuff that may be of interest to you. Brought to you by that suave and sophisticated secret agent...



Here are seven cool links plus this week's car chase...

1) Alvaro Rodriguez (MACHETE) interviews Ted Talley (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS).

2) If other directors had made HUNGER GAMES.

3) Lem Dobbs speaks his mind.

4) ActionFest 2012 Trailer!

5) Your Guide To 2012 TV Pilots.

6) How the HUNGER GAMES movie is different than the book.

7) Another damned list from Chuck Wendig!

And this week's car chase...



From STAKEOUT. I had a great car/motorcycle chase from FIRST BLOOD, but the danged thing couldn't be embedded. So instead of Stallone, we get Aidan Quinn... but still, great *real* car chase with *real* stunts and *real* wrecks. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

- Bill

FINALLY!

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"SECRETS OF ACTION SCREENWRITING is the best book on the practical nuts-and-bolts mechanics of writing a screenplay I've ever read." - Ted Elliott, co-writer of MASK OF ZORRO, SHREK, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and the sequels (with Terry Rossio).(ie; 4 of the top 20 Box Office Hits Of ALL TIME.)

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Lancelot Link: In Danger

Lancelot Link Thursday! This week's links to some great screenwriting and film articles, plus some fun stuff that may be of interest to you. Brought to you by that suave and sophisticated secret agent...



Here are seven cool links plus this week's car chase...

1) The Movie Poster Database!

2) Video On Demand - The Numbers!

3) Chinese Copies Of American Movie Posters

4) Where JOHN CARTER went wrong.

5) Noir City Hollywood 2012 Schedule.

And the Car Chase Of The Week:


Mel Gibson - dubbed into *American* in MAD MAX (1979). This is the movie that came *before* ROAD WARRIOR, where police officer Max becomes that broken man in ROAD WARRIOR after battling Toe Cutter and his gang. If you haven't seen it, worth a look - and the DVD is in *Australian*.

- Bill

Lancelot Link's Twelve

Lancelot Link Thursday! This week's links to some great screenwriting and film articles, plus some fun stuff that may be of interest to you. Brought to you by that suave and sophisticated secret agent...



Here are seven cool links plus this week's car chase...

1) 50 Greatest Deleted Scenes Of All Time.

2) So What Does A Studio Head Make?

3) Famous Film Flops!

4) Ebert Looks At Bad Movies Someone Thought Were Terrific!

5) 1933 Taglines - Sex and Violence Sells!

6) WRATH OF JOHN CARTER

7) Before the Black List, Movieline had a *real* list of Top 10 Unproduced Screenplays!

And the Car Chase Of The Week is the best part of MATRIX RELOADED...



They built that freeway for the film on Treasure Island (in the San Francisco Bay). Probably still there.

- Bill

Lancelot Link: Back 2 Tha' Hood!

Lancelot Link Thursday! This week's links to some great screenwriting and film articles, plus some fun stuff that may be of interest to you. Brought to you by that suave and sophisticated secret agent...



Here are five cool links plus this week's car chase...

1) The writer of GAME CHANGE, Danny Strong.

2) Great interview with the new generation of hot screenwriters.

3) Part 2 of the interview.

4) The Top Movie Stars - Every Year!

5) All Three Prequels Edited Into One Good 85 Minute Movie, by...

And the Car Chase Of The Week...



From KING OF THE MOUNTAIN, which was originally used as a bad example in SECRETS OF ACTION SCREENWRITING. One of those movies that looks like two completely different screenplays got mixed up at the copy machine and they shot 90 pages.

- Bill

FINALLY!

*** THE SECRETS OF ACTION SCREENWRITING *** - For Kindle!
*** THE SECRETS OF ACTION SCREENWRITING *** - For Nook!

Why pay $510 for a used version of the 240 page 2000 version that used to retail for $21.95? (check it out!) when you can get the NEW EXPANDED VERSION - over 500 pages - for just $9.99? New chapters, New examples, New techniques!

"SECRETS OF ACTION SCREENWRITING is the best book on the practical nuts-and-bolts mechanics of writing a screenplay I've ever read." - Ted Elliott, co-writer of MASK OF ZORRO, SHREK, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and the sequels (with Terry Rossio).(ie; 4 of the top 20 Box Office Hits Of ALL TIME.)

Only $9.99 - and no postage!

Lancelot Link: Money Never Sleeps

Lancelot Link Thursday! This week's links to some great screenwriting and film articles, plus some fun stuff that may be of interest to you. Brought to you by that suave and sophisticated secret agent...



Here are five cool links plus this week's car chase...

1) A TED speech from 2023... from PROMETHEUS (the new ALIEN movie).

2) Sean Hood on why studios rewrite screenplays.

3) A bunch of other screenwriters on rewrites.

4) From SHARKTOPUS to THE GODFATHER!

5) Today in select cities THE GODFATHER is playing (anniversary)! - so here is a website that's all about THE GODFATHER movies.

And the car chase of the week...



From THE JUNKMAN - not quite a sequel to GONE IN 60 SECONDS.

- Bill