AC

He wrote perhaps the best opening ever, in stating the theme:

Butch: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful.

Banker: People kept robbing it.

Butch: That's a small price to pay for beauty.

Stoked to see my 1-page horror script, BABY MONITOR, featured in this article! Less is more, choose your words wisely, and write what scares you👻
#scriptsky @kellyxasher.bsky.social

Filming your own micro budget means never waiting for someone else's permission for:
-personal taste
-financing
-genre du jour
-distribution
-accolades
You get to make it for the sheer joy of it
#scriptsky #filmsky

Outline_Example_Tim_Westland.xlsx

OUTLINE TEMPLATE

A long time ago, I created a simple Excel file to assist me in constructing high level, scene by scene outlines.

If you want it, here's the link!

Just save the file to your system and have at it.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Happy writing! #Scriptsky

GATEWAY

it’s POSEIDON ADVENTURE…in outer space!

#ScriptSky

This is the movie equivalent of when you start writing something out on a sign, you realize you're running out of space for the letters ... and you write the rest of your text on the BACK of the sign where no one will ever see it.

This is particularly frustrating to read after I've just gone and removed all the positive and negative emotions from my scripts.

$770M later: It wasn't people, it was the algorithm.

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Which am I working to improve?

"EVERY ONE," and that includes spacing between words.

I was doing a movie with Tsui Hark (and Oliver Stone's producer, A. Kitman Ho), back in 1997. A live action adaption of "Lupin III", that we would have done with Jim Carrey. Alex Ho (lovely, lovely man) ended up losing the rights, so it never happened. Craziest screenplay I ever wrote! #scriptsky

"All first drafts are shit"
-- Ernest Hemingway

2008 you say? Who was that fella that ran for president in 08?
Hmmmm.

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Pitching at 8am on Sunday with a migraine - up at 7am for hair and makeup - trying to look bright-eyed and BOOM! Script request for FIRE KINGS from Paramount.

Thanks @stage32.bsky.social for the opportunity!

That is Munny!

ANIMAL HOUSE at the Student Union Building Theatre. Literally an audience of drunken first-year students. One such "student" was laughing so hard he projectile vomited on his friends with the horse bit that ends with the triple. "Holy Shit!"

Cats have nine lives. They're not worried.

inkcanada: canadian screenwriters & friends THE NEXT INDRINKS TORONTO IS 31 JULY FROM 7 - 9 PM UPSTAIRS AT THE MONARCH

🗓️ 😍 Meet Canadian actor-filmmaker (and incredible screenwriter) Joey Klein this Thursday at #inkdrinks Toronto. Details:

That's got to be the worst ever experience for a fish minding its own business.

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Oh, no.

It's official.

I've begun outlining a rom com...

That involves a severed head, among other weird things 🙃

#Scriptsky

If you have friends in Japan, I suggest you call them Tuesday morning, because it's almost Wednesday in Japan. Gotta get ahead of these things.

A demonstration of the fact that point of view is worth 80 IQ pts.

Screenshot of my top Coverfly scripts, top left to bottom right: PRO LIFE, GERMINATION, KITTERITCH, THE MILDEN MISFITS, TANDEM, and 3LLA

Finally got around to submitting to that Roadmap thing, and it's weird because I don't think I've uploaded anything to my Coverfly since Christmas 😅

Anyway, got to take every opportunity you can!

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Got two tickets to tonight’s sold out screening of STREETS OF FIRE with Walter Hill at the Academy Museum I need to offload 😢. Looking for what I paid for them ($16 total).

The opening track of tuning up got me hooked. I knew I was in great hands.

... or to edit.

I tried making some once.
Was not great.
More like amateursciutto. But ...
Good with amateursecco.

That would be an email.

64,799 characters?!
That sounds like a lot for one novel. Oh, wait... never mind.