Nic.Lishko

I'm gonna read Let The Evil Go West and do a write up of it on Sunday.

A bunch of us read or are reading Moonlight so I'll start a convo for that if no one has done it yet!

Just say you identify as female.

You only count if you are non-white when you identify as a female. It's very precise mathematism.

Trump's policies will trickle down and eventually white-males will get equal access. It's a movement ya' know!

Will do

What time is the Sunday chat-it-up?

On it!

That is to say, tomorrow in the abstract way. I'll be hanging around most of the day.

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Anyway, here's wonderwall.

Hi CB, Might not make it for the chat 'cause I'm on holiday. My vote is on Blonde Ambition. But I'm pretty much happy to read anything.

Noted!

I was so shocked when the first Passengers trailer came out...it looked like a really expensive perfume commercial. Or like that fake movie they were talking about in Thank You For Smoking with Angelina Jolie smoking in space.

This is the second good script Morten Tyldum has made a bland realization of.

Axalon nails it.

Just started a thread in Chit Chat! We're live, woo-hoo.

#TBScriptClub klaxon!

Sounds good. Whatever you decide. Is it a rotating thing where each member gets a chance to choose a script or by votes, what?

Love to start next week. Posted a few suggestions for organizing on chit chat.

Excellent! I'm all about each member choosing for the first round and then starting off the discussion

Hi Charlie. Kindly add me to the list. It's about time I grow as a writer through peer exercises like this one. Thanks

I would love to join! It's lonely reading scripts by myself with no one to discuss them with!

Please add me. Thank you.

I'm down.

Sure.... it all starts with "Script Reading Club" and the next thing you know, you're all in Bora Bora looking for your pants... ;-)

I'LL TAKE IT AS YOU'RE IN MISTER DEAFBLANK (awful awful i'm so sorry)

We barely managed it here in Chicago. I'm a life-long Cubbies fan and I'm thinking that after that game, I might never need to see another baseball game ever again. Nothing will ever top that.

Congratulations, it must feel pretty remarkable. I'm reminded of that great quote from Almost Famous - "They don't even know what it is to be a fan. Y'know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts." You can say they same about being a sports fan - it's really difficult work.

Unbelievable now they didn't make it with Banks, Santo, Jenkins, Williams, etc. but they certainly did it in memorable style this time around!

Well, it's no People of Earth! It's OK, IMO. Just seems like Joel McHale doesn't believe in the show -- like he's going through the motions. Good fit for CBS though.

I've got some good fiction/non-fiction from a few years back when I was actively doing coverage. At the time they had heat at the big Frankfurt Book Fair.

Thanks for the rec drb! "Sell Out" was highly enjoyable!

Wow, you read that fast. Glad you liked it. Simon Rich is hilarious. Check out "The Ultimate Foosball Championship" by him. Just google it. It's also on the New Yorker. You can read it in literally 5 minutes, but it's hilarious.

Thanks! Will check it out!

WestWorld, the pilot of the exorcist was really damn good so I'm interested to see how the series is

The Young Pope

I have high expectations for Luke Cage and hoping Designated Survivor delivers.

It's a miracle! And thanks for sharing, Charlie.

Thanks for sharing - I used to really enjoy this site but forgot it existed after it went un-updated for what felt like several years.

Wow, great read! One of the best insights into the industry I think I've ever read. Thanks for sharing, wish I had something this straight to the point when I started out.

Thanks!! I've never posted in the forum before, so this is a nice place to leave my first comment!

Go kill it Larry. Sounds like it will find a home easily

Best wishes, Larry! And great title, too.

That and anything to do with politics this year. Biopics and et cetera.

Yeah, the plant houses are good to go. The soil is gentle and the undead obnoxious.

As a sidenote, if you're going to be working in Denver I wouldn't live in/commute from the Springs. I've lived in both Denver and the Springs (love both but Denver is more for me) and that's a rough commute to making regularly. Castle Rock is about as far south as I would go for a Denver commute.

Castle Rock?! I haven't sold ten scripts yet, ha! Thanks for the info man, I'll be in touch with ya more about it in the coming weeks and months

Shoot me a pm when you need more info - I'm happy to help with my thoughts on the area.

Presumably they intend to cut after the initial draft the network reads, as an excuse to include ideas they could repurpose for later episodes, or to test out characters/plotlines that might be iffy. A TV writer friend told me a good length for a spec pilot is 65 pages. I've seen shooting scripts for recent hour-long dramas (regular episodes, not pilots) that are as short as 42.

Go TB!

Awesome! Go TB!

That's awesome!

I posted a few more. Hope it helps. Good luck.

Thanks a lot, Charlie!

Full disclosure, I wrote a steampunk/gearpunk pilot with two other friends that has been very favorably received and we're looking to potentially turn it into a graphic novel or a comic book series as the budget would be high and no one would take a risk on it.

We were planning 13 episode seasons and about 5 or 6 seasons worth of story. Advice from friends in the business suggest going the comic route so we're exploring it currently and are just in...

No problem. Checkout Lady Mechanika or Iron West for steampunk comic examples. Even the Trigun anime has steampunk elements. Good luck with the adaptation.

And the next one up the chain will want alien zombies. Good luck!

A note that stupid does not come from someone who has a clue what they are talking about. So walk away. You won't lose as much as you will by staying. It's literally nonsense.

If only it were so simple. The guy happens to be a friend and this is 3 years worth of free rewrites. This is the last one before I let it go for good. Thanks everyone for all the excellent comments!!

good luck nic!

i was born in colorado, but moved when i was one so i can’t say much about it except you drive in that third gear thing on automatic cars when you're in the mountains. i've been waiting my whole life to go back there one day, especially with recent additions to freedom lol. alas! hope you find what you want with your stearch.

Thanks. Wife is getting transferred at some point this year so I'll be closer to LA for writing on one hand and on the other there's more entrainment opportunities there than Michigan.