Think twice if you want to send US screenwriter and director Josh Olson one of your movie scripts for his consideration… he can spot poorly written screenplays almost instantly:
It rarely takes more than a page to recognize that you’re in the presence of someone who can write, but it only takes a sentence to [...]
Before writing a script you ought to read the script
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 15 September, 2009 to the movies subset
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Reconstructing a day in the life of the world, 5000 years ago
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 1 June, 2009 to the comment subset
Eight ancient documents, or scripts, some up to 5000 years old, which have so far remained mostly undeciphered.
That is the great challenge of decipherment: to reach deep into the past and hear the voices of the dead. When the Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered in 1823, they extended the span of recorded history by around 2000 [...]
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Stars Wars: the script strikes back
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 29 May, 2009 to the movies subset
The Star Wars scripts underwent numerous revisions… for this we should be eternally thankful.
His first version only vaguely resembles the final film that we all know and love. There is an Empire. There is a rebellion. There’s a princess. There are themes of tyranny verses democracy, which are mostly verbalized through somewhat preachy dialogue. There [...]
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Batman 1.5
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 7 July, 2008 to the movies subset
While producers of The Dark Knight have rejected a script written by Michael Bay, who knows, maybe the idea could be adapted for an animated version of Batman, much like Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which is due out shortly.
Some of the action isn’t too bad after all (page 112):
The Batmobile is gunning down the [...]
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