Because I gave no idea how many people who visit this blog even know that I have a website with a different screenwriting article every day, I'm going to post some links to recent material about the actual writing of the scripts on these new films...
CROOKED
The orginal screenplay:
http://www.scriptsecrets.net/screenplays/target.pdf
How it was written:
http://www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip196.htm
BLACK THUNDER
The original screenplay:
http://www.scriptsecrets.net/screenplays/thunder1.pdf
How it was written (in 3 weeks):
http://www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip104.htm
http://www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip105.htm
What I found interesting is how much the scripts and the films are comletely different. As if a drunk read the original script, told the story to another drunk in a bar who told it to another drunk in a bar who told it to... well, dozen drunks later they typed it up and filmed it.
- Bill
"Because I gave no idea how many people who visit this blog even know that I have a website with a different screenwriting article every day..."
ReplyDeleteExactly the opposite, I've been to scriptsecrets.net, but I never knew you had this blog. I came across a link to it while trying to find a master index of the tips pages. You should really give that site a makeover, it's looking a little 1995'ish.
Bookmarked your RSS feed and dropped snugly in between Alex Epstein and Bryce Zabel. Good company all around if you ask me.
thanks for the read, Bill... I just dug out my autographed Blue Book on action screenwriting and going over it as I am embarking on an action-thriller spec... coffee stained, dog-eared, notes penned in the margins, but that binding is hanging on, good job
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