Meet our fourth consider so far for 2023: Andrew Stopyra. We reviewed his pilot SCARLET, about a sultry con artist with a grand plan in turn-of-the-century France, weeks ago and gave it a “consider with reservations” for script – a Get Repped Now near miss. Stopyra promptly rolled up his sleeves and resubmitted a better,…
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During the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant Ulysses Grant falls in love with a Mexican woman who helps African-American slaves escape bondage. The war separates them, but they meet again when the woman is dispatched to the United States to seek an alliance to prevent the French from conquering Mexico and becoming an ally of the Confederacy….
Get Repped Now has been EXTENDED. FINAL DEADLINE is Midnight Pacific time, June 4th, 2023. THERE IS NO PRICE INCREASE. This is your last chance to get that killer screenplay or pilot you’ve been working so hard on to our manager panel. There will be no further extensions. You know what to do. Go get…
Let’s continue our journey through movie structure. In case you’ve missed our previous columns on this subject, you can find them right here. We’re past the midpoint. We’ve just witnessed our protagonist finally gain a foothold in their new world and celebrate that fact; but now the bad guys are closing in, more viciously and…
Let’s talk about your midpoint. Assuming your script clocks in at 100 – 110 pages, this will happen somewhere between pages 50 to 55. The first part of Act Two saw our protagonist struggle to get their bearings in this new environment, try to advance their goal, and make quite a few mistakes. (If you…
When a Los Angeles family man’s secret neo-Nazi past resurfaces, to avoid life behind bars he must become the man he swore he never again would be and infiltrate a white-supremacist terrorist organization before it seizes the White House. Let’s hear it for our second consider of 2023: Philip Elliott’s thriller pilot AMERICAN SWASTIKA, which…
We’re continuing our journey through screenplay structure by examining the turn into Act Two. In case you’ve missed our previous columns about setup, inciting incident, and the hero refusing the call, you can find them on our blog. Act Two is where your protagonist embraces the mission they were given. It usually happens somewhere between pages…
Here is our weekly column of screenwriting tips. For all previous columns, please see our blog entries right here. In our last column, we’ve talked about the Inciting Incident. This week, let’s talk about the rest of Act One. What does that mean? Well, the inciting incident has happened, the monkey wrench has been thrown,…
We are psyched to introduce our first Get Repped Now 2023 consider: Joe Marino. Joe really brought it with his tense Southern Gothic horror-thriller FEALTY, and we can’t wait to introduce him to our industry panel. As it turns out, he’s also friends with former GRN considers Jason Gruich and David L. Williams whose careers…