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The Black Pearl |
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Dream Project: The Black Pearl by Ray Morton
Every screenwriter has his or her own dream project – that
special script that hasn't landed yet, but that he/she will never give up on
until it finally reaches the screen. For the screenwriting duo of Eric Johnson
and Paul Tamasy – authors of the upcoming Mark Wahlberg/Christian Bale-starrer The
Fighter – that script is The Black Pearl. "That's one that we're
really passionate about," Johnson says. "It's one we'd really love to see get
made."
The Black Pearl is the story of a troubled young man
that tries to become a superhero in the real world and all of the complications
that ensue. The concept was conceived by Johnson's cousin, actor and comic book
enthusiast Mark Hamill following the infamous Bernhard Goetz "subway shooter"
incident that occurred in New York City in the early 1980s. As Eric explains: |
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2010 Writers Guild Award Winners |
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2010 Writers Guild Award Winners compiled by Ray Morton On February 20, 2010, The Writers
Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW)
announced the winners of the 2010 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding
achievement in writing for screen, television, radio, news, promotional, and
videogame writing at simultaneous ceremonies at the Hudson Theatre at the
Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City and the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
Hotel in Los Angeles. Susie Essman of Curb Your Enthusiasm hosted the
East Coast show, and Seth MacFarlane, creator and star of Family Guy, hosted
the West Coast show. |
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Everything Old is New Again |
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Everything Old is New Again
by Ray Morton
If you have been keeping up with Hollywood's development and production slates, it's
pretty obvious that original material is not much in vogue these days. While
the number of original spec scripts has plunged to the lowest point in a
generation, it seems that almost every day one or more studios announces plans
to remake an old film, produce a sequel to a recent one, or reboot a moribund
series. One explanation for this is certainly the general lack of creativity
that seems to have infected all areas of pop culture over the last decade or
so. But the primary reason would seem to be that – with production and release
costs on a seemingly permanent upward spiral and with the entertainment
companies' corporate owners becoming more and more obsessed with the bottom
line, the studios are desperately searching for sure things – properties that
will automatically attract large audiences without having to spend the millions
of dollars to raise audience awareness that original material requires. To the
studios' thinking, remakes, sequels, and reboots are the perfect vehicles for
this because the original iterations have already proven themselves to be
successful and so it stands to reason that new versions and additional installments
will also be popular. |
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The Punch-Up Guy |
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 The Punch-Up Guy: Matt Walker by Marc D. Allan
The line isn't working. It's Day 19 on the set of Garry Marshall's new movie, Valentine's
Day, and he's directing a scene where Alex (Carter Jenkins) is trying to
seduce Grace (Emma Roberts). They're inside a closed snack shop adjacent to the
field where the boy Grace babysits is playing soccer. She can't believe Alex
wants their first time together to be in such a semi-public place. |
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Mystery Man: Subterranean Cinema |
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My friend, Don, over at Simply Scripts stumbled across a website called Subterranean Cinema, which offers a handful of ultra-rare oh-my-God-I-didn’t-know-they-wrote-that screenplays, along with vintage film clips from Martin Scorsese, Lenny Bruce, and David Lynch, and unearthed soundtrack cuts from classic horror flicks. So I went on journey. I read all of the screenplays. You won’t believe what I discovered. The second is the script for The Tony Clifton Story, a script written by Andy Kaufman as a star vehicle for his alter ego. Continue reading ... |
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Dr. Who: Complete and Utter, Wonderful Nonsense |
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This month, the current incarnation of the BBC’s spectacularly successful revival of Doctor Who is coming to an end. For the uninitiated, Doctor Who is a whimsical English science-fiction/fantasy show about a mysterious alien known only as The Doctor, a renegade time lord from the planet Gallifrey, who -- accompanied by one or more human companions -- travels across time and space, visiting distant and unusual eras and worlds and becoming involved in amazing adventures that often see him doing battle with dastardly villains and incredible monsters. The show is great fun -- at times silly, at times serious and always filled with imagination, amusement and excitement. To quote a line from the show, it is “complete and utter, wonderful nonsense.” Continue reading ... |
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