To celebrate the latest edition of the WriteMovies Horror Award, we’re looking back at some of our favorite films and TV shows in horror. Find out what scares us the most… and what we’re looking for from a horror script! Next up: ALIEN… (more…)
The TERMINATOR franchise has undergone some turbulent times of late. The first two films in the series can only be counted as classics, featuring some of the greatest action sequences, characters, lines, and concepts ever put to film. All the films since? Not so much.
ALIENS fired imaginations in 1986, and remains a touchstone for screenwriting. So why does it look a bit dated now, and what lessons does that reveal for writers today? Ian Kennedy looks at how to get the details right in your sci-fi script.
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Big film news as the Na’vi are finally return to Earth! AVATAR’s long-awaited sequel enters production… FINALLY.
With the plethora of sequels, prequels, franchises, and spinoffs, it feels hard to get excited about films that come from an already existing franchise. But with BLADE RUNNER 2049 being released soon, another long-awaited sequel is coming. James Cameron’s AVATAR sequel has begun filming and is set to be released 11 years after the original in 2009. The hype around these two films, in particular, seem to show a good way for companies to release sequels.
1. Nail the first film.
2. Promise nothing in way of sequels, or remain ambiguous about any.
3. Wait a long time for audiences to get hungry when the sequel is announced.
That’s not to say there haven’t been some great franchise sequels (THE DARK KNIGHT, X2, SPIDERMAN 2, CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLIDER), but giving audiences a long time to wait for a new film seems to give an added hype to the release of a film – which may have even helped the new re-adaptation of IT, too!
Check out more on AVATAR 2 and more here: http://deadline.com/2017/09/avatar-james-cameron-four-consecutive-sequels-1-billion-budget-1202176798/
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“It is Victorian values and culture that are indicted by the failures of the Titanic, and those are what go down with the ship in our eyes…” Comments from us and extracts from a script report by our trainee Daniela Piper-Vegh, based on a reading of the script of multiple Oscar Award winning TITANIC: http://movie-scripts.net/T/Titanic.pdf (more…)