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Script magazine - March/April 2006

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FEATURE

Roger Avary Takes Us To Silent Hill
By Roger Avary
Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Roger Avary would have taken the assignment to write Silent Hill even if the pay were a pittance. He loved the game and the battle with Darkness. But, taking the game to the big screen had some bumps in the road, and Avary shares some of his struggles with us in this unique first-person account of the script’s development.


WRITERS ON WRITING

The Writing of Dirty
By Chris Fisher
Writer-director Chris Fisher was not the voice of his screenplay. His main character, Armando Sancho, did the talking for him.

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One ... Enlisted
By Aaron Ginsburg & Wade McIntyre
Scribes Aaron Ginsburg and Wade McIntyre were enlisted to write a story of the emotional journeys about a unique collection of individual soldiers spanning several trying years, much like HBO’s superb mini-series Band of Brothers. The catch: They’d be writing a first-person-shooter videogame.

Reinventing When A Stranger Calls
By Jake Wade Wall
Screenwriter Jake Wade Wall describes the challenges of expanding the first 14 minutes of a classic horror film into a feature-length, suspense-filled story that keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very end.

CRAFT

Independents: Story Form
By William C. Martell
Experimental story forms can create a heightened emotional experience for the audience or leave them confused and wanting a refund. Find out how to write something really different without losing the audience.

The Hill With It: The Spec Script Buyer’s Prayer
By John Hill
What goes through a spec script buyer’s heart and soul just before they read your spec? Find out.

Growing a Great Script: Plant it Now, Reap it Later
By Staton Rabin
So, you’ve mastered basic three-act structure and think there’s nothing left to learn? Think again! If you really want to make it to the big leagues, learning how to skillfully plant in Act One of your script information that pays off later in the story is a skill you’re going to need.

Why I Write: Antwone Fisher
By Zack Gutin
Not many screenwriters have found success by writing their autobiographies for the screen. But then again, not many writers have a story like Antwone Fisher’s to tell.

Meet The Reader: A Decade in Review
By Ray Morton
Ray Morton takes a look at some of the best scripts of the past 10 years.



DEVELOPMENT

Who You Know: Albert Page
By John Scott Lewinski
Albert Page, vice president of development for Mandeville Films and Television, is uniquely qualified to help writers through the development process. He’s been on the other side of the desk himself and understands the writer’s point of view.

Spec Sale Spotlight: Marcus Folmar
By Rita Cook
Screenwriter Marcus Folmar’s script I’m Perfect won Writemovies.com’s 2002 International Writing Contest and was optioned by contest sponsor rossWWmedia. The script’s subsequent production has jump-started Folmar’s career.

Great ExSPECtations
By Bettina Moss
Former HBO Films’ Story Department Head Bettina Moss talks to writers, producers, agents and development execs to find out what role the spec plays in launching a writer’s career and whether or not a writer should stick to one genre in the beginning.

The Great Idea™: The Celestine Prophecy
By Kate McCallum and Michael Steven Gregory
From self-publishing an international best-seller to writing and producing the adaptation of the book into a film, James Redfield discusses how he worked to preserve the meaning of his book during its adaptation.

Six Nicholls Try To Make a Dollar
By Julio Gagne
Does semifinalist spell success for Nicholl winners? Writer Julio Gagne follows six semifinalists from the 2004 Nicholl Fellowship, each from different parts of the country, to see if they turned their Nicholl status into a career.

From Script to Screen: Thank You For Smoking
By David S. Cohen
Writer-director Jason Reitman candidly discusses his Sundance feature debut Thank You For Smoking. This entertaining satire follows Nick Naylor, a chief spokesman for Big Tobacco who must put a positive spin on smoking to combat the efforts of health advocates. .

Get Off Your Butt and Off The Script Stack
By John Scott Lewinski
These days it seems that the entertainment business’s decision makers are sick and tired of reading screenplays. Smart screenwriters are exploring alternatives to get their stories in front of execs.

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