scriptwriting

When industry feedback tells you to make substantial changes to your story, how much change can you make before losing the very heart of your story? Discussion on feedback and story evolution.

Taking the cue from Mark Kermode's brilliant movie reviews podcast, this post looks at how Meet the Spartans may be one of the most despised films of this year but will still achieve its goals, box-office receipts, and guarantee more films like this will be made. There is a reason for all this.

Although comics have advanced a great deal in the last thirty years, there are still a number of core cliches that insist on cropping up, again and again. I crave the day when a comic manages to avoid all the cliches on this list!

Blade Runner is one of the most influential cult sci-fi films of all time, even though it was a box-office flop on release. The troubled story of it's different incarnations over the years reveals some intriguing insights into how a strong script uses ambiguity to create mystery and how unanswered questions can give a film a lingering potency long after the final frame.