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Creative Screenwriting #66 - The Unit/Tim Minear/Pitching - Mar/Apr 2006
CS-066
PEOPLE & NEWS
The Buzz
The Movies game; New Vision Fellowship's Hard Scrambled makes Cinequest.
Anatomy of a Spec Sale
Dario Scardapane wrote Fed X as a love letter to Shane Black, but ended up with Hugh Jackman and a spec sale.
Production Co. Spotlight
Lost Scenes: Traffic
Stephen Gaghan cleans up a Traffic jam by editing Catherine Zeta-Jones arc.
Breaking In
Brendan King, Matt Fleckenstein
People
Philip Chidel, Writers Arc's Ami Vitori and Amy Kane
Why I Write
Roger Avery's personal exploration leads up Silent Hill.
Festival Report: Sundance
Jeff Goldsmith sees thirty-three films and gives you the lowdown from Robert Redford's backyard. And which film was so good he saw it twice?
The Final Scene
Ask the Dust
By Robert Towne
Coming Soon...
American Dreamz
About a Boy's Paul Weitz takes on American politics and American Idol in this comedy about a clueless Commander-in-Chief who becomes a judge on a reality talent TV show. By Yon Motskin.
Thank You For Smoking
Jason Reitman, son of Ghostbusters director Ivan, on his five-year quest to adapt and direct Christopher Buckley's black satire of the tobacco industry. By Yon Motskin.
Hard Candy
TV scribe and a playwright Brian Nelson turns a rip-off scheme by underage Japanese prostitutes into a single-location revenge thriller by way of Hitchcock. By Ari Eisner.
Dirty
Writer/director Chris Fisher scripted an intense tale based on L.A.P.D.'s Rampart scandal - and then was told he couldn't set it in Los Angeles. By Yon Motskin.
Akeelah and the Bee
Perseverance and persistence pay off for both the protagonist in Doug Atchison's Nicholl-winning script and its writer/director. By Nancy Hendrickson.
Columns
The Busine$$ of Screenwriting
Awards Process Overhaul
Maybe this year's Academy Awards will finally make the execs sit up and take notice. By Ron Suppa
Writer Beware!
The T-Shirt That Ate the Film
Why did a screenwriter go to court to stop an online retailer from selling bootleg T-shirts? By Steve Ryfle
Agent's Hot Sheet
6 Deadly Sins of Screenwriting
Once you break in, how do you stay in? It's not as easy as you may think, as we're about to find out. By Jim Cirile
Our Craft
Character Connection: Part 2
How you can use the four types of contrast to keep readers fascinated by your characters. By Karl Iglesias
The Contest Beat
The Words You Need to Hear
This issue covers a new contest that offers feedback and an old favorite that offers great exposure. By Peter Clines
You've Got to Produce
Predicting the Future
What does the future of screenwriting hold? Dr. Jim Taylor can help lead the way. By Catherine Clinch
Features
The Unit's Shawn Ryan and Eric Haney on Bringing the Military to the Small Screen - Right, For Once
The creator of The Shield and the co-founder of the Army's Delta Force anti-terrorist group on their military adventure-drama The Unit, their writing process, and the other executive producer - some guy named David Mamet. By David Michael Wharton.
Breaking the Story: Showrunner Tim Minear on Creating a TV Episode
Tim Minear's story-breaking class at Screenwriting Expo 4 was so popular we asked him to put it in print. Here he leads you through the process of creating a TV episode. By Jason Davis.
Metaphors and Murder: Reinventing Angel and The Inside
Tim Minear tells how he reconceptualized these shows from the inside out. By Jason Davis.
High School Confidential: Rian Johnson Takes Film Noir to School in Brick
With a powerful scripts and $500,000, this writer/director brings hard-boiled detective fiction to a new level in his feature debut. By Jeff Goldsmith.
Where Nobody's Dreams Come True: Robert Towne on Ask the Dust, Writing, and Los Angeles as a Character
Robert Towne found Ask the Dust while he was researching Chinatown, but it's not until recently that he could adapt and direct this story of a writer come to L.A. to make it big. By David Konow.
Pitching: You Hate It, You Have to Do It, Here's How
Most writers hate to pitch, so we asked some million-dollar screenwriters, and the people who buy their pitches, to let you in on their secrets. By Tom Matthews.
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