Nic.Lishko

Charlie Brown, I'd love to take a look, currently in the romcom headspace myself, please PM me.

I should be able to give it a read. PM me too

PMS have been sent. I'll message you Anon

Just visiting the Alma Mater. No big deal.

In PIT now visiting family.. just had Prim's for lunch. :-)

Nice George! Went to Rock Bottom instead. Great Christmas brew. If you're going through Pitt's airport, there's a bar that has Founder's Breakfast Stout. Pretty awesome.

But it's got Corey Feldman... so it's awesome forever.

Don't 4get 2 add in "Explorers" to round out the collection, Chuck. Monster Squad is tight though, "Wolfman's got nards!" I hope you feel better, soon, Chuck.

Hey Nic shoot me a message. Your mailbox is full.

Exciting! Best of luck, Charlie!

make sure it's working, otherwise it's better to wait until it's ready. I learned that lesson!

I hammered out a beat sheet all the producers were really into last night. So I'm going off of that. Want to talk about that a bit more Chando?

Send me your email George!

Nothing is wrong with it Axalon. I've done it and it was great. Just don't want to keep paying when I got no job and no money. I will querify four management companies if I don't get the fellowship at universal I applied for. :-D

I don't think it's a bad thing at all to show that you're on-trend when applying for a fellowship.

Thanks Sanguine! I think you're right

saved and SAVED!

Thank you for the reminder, I am sorry you had to go through this!

No worries! Twas a long time ago

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.

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.

Ha. Great thread.

A lot of my fan stuff is on my co-writer's old PC. If I can get him to find the files, I'd love to upload it.

I'm GAME (eh?) as well

Wuddup EDtv!

Gimme back my son!

"Yeah, but Opie, don't the trees seem nice and full"

How so Mac?

Chris Pratt is a new star in the making...just sayin'

ideafeast -- I think the idea is that Hollywood isn't producing nearly as many new stars as it used to.

Chris Pratt and Benedict Cumberbatch are anomalies.

Another mystery is why writers believe that someone who has chosen anonynomity is a) in the position they claim to be or will help launch their career.

Agreed.

But either way, looking at the list, the one about make synchronised swimming sounds hilarious!

Some have props. Some of our fellow TBers know them. The only way your career will move is writing a great script, IMHO.

Awesome!

Haven't seen it, Chuck. But, thanks. I will check it out.

What a great find!

Way to go Ben! That's a lot of money for a dying medium

seriously - well done ben

Thanks fellas, but I think Luke Wilson should have been the excited one. I'd have saved him a trip to the notary public

What is CG?

His site

I guess I don't know it. Link?

Glad to hear it was a good flick. He went on a little rant and got over it lol. Just the initial idea of kids fighting and using their imaginations is what he says was his idea. But I know there's no grounds there.

Wait did your cousin actually write out a full-length screenplay or did he just have an idea for one?

He wrote a whole script. I've explained to him that "similar ideas" isn't anything to stand on.

Been 6 months for me. Moved, had comp issues, new job, no software, etc. Luckily my bro picked up the slack. And I've been outlining and doing story notes like mad. But, FD is on sale at Writers Store, so my drought will end this weekend! Can't wait!

Give yourself some forced, mental encouragement so that you are certain of yourself, CB.

When I get "stuck" I just write a scene of something completely unrelated to whatever it is I'm working on -- like a James Bond intro or maybe Michelle Yeoh kicking some ass... whatever forces creativity.. and then I transition into project at hand. Maybe I still end up with crap but you know you sometimes gotta get it all out before the gems emerge. Write on!

Bryan Cranston said that Vince Gilligan told him from the outset that the show was about going from Mr. Chips to Scarface. Funny how Scarface ended with Pacino firing grenades from an M-16, and Walter White begins this season by buying an M-60, another heavy machine gun. "The Last Stand of Heisenberg?" Who will be dead at this point -- Jesse, Hank, Lydia, his wife, kids? I think SAUL will be the lone survivor, and slink off into the distance holding a bag full of $100 million. :-)

http://imgur.com/r/breakingbad/bwjXK

http://imgur.com/r/breakingbad/m4sQC

Charlie -- those are wicked links. Too funny!

Sounds like a pretty epic retreat!

The delight of dog-sitting

I got 30 odd films I want to break down while there as well as the usual coverage assignments I gotta get through.

Rock on!

Agreed. Despite some problems with the version I read the rewrite/what got produced was not what I would consider much of an improvement. The film was way too boring at times.

Movie fucking sucked donkey dick. Not nearly as good as the draft that attracted all the attention.

Thanks for letting me know peeps!

I totally agree and that's why I chose to use him. He's a screenwriter as well and probly won't be doing coverage much longer since he's close to getting a few big projects moving. He posts over on Done Deal as EvilRbt and his site is screenplaymechanic.com. If you want, I could send you a sample of the last coverage he did for me that really helped when I rewrote the script.

You could always post here first. Always start out with the free option.

Thanks everyone! Definitely got a lot to think about

LOL. I listen to all the working writers talk about how fast it takes them to write a draft and I think shit, I'm going so damn slow! A good outline really does help write a hell of a lot faster, I will say that.

I agree about the outline. I had a 121 page first draft, let sit over the holidays, then cut it down to 95 pages. I'm letting it sit a couple of weeks before I give it a 3rd pass to iron out some of the changes I made.

Nice. Keep rocking. It's a marathon not a race. That's what I gotta tell myself.

keep it up!

get r dun

Thanks everyone!

When the time comes for me to move, trust me, I will have ZERO problem doing unpaid internships Thanks for the comments thus far!

so you're not even in LA and complaining about trying to find a job here??

Please tell me where I'm complaining. I'm not. I'm asking a question, trying to start a discussion, looking for answers to an inquiry. That is all.

Sure Nomad, I'll take a look

Thought EXP was an enjoyable read.

Thanks, mebishop! Appreciate the kind words.