My supernatural Western screenplay A SIX-GUN FOR THE DEVIL has advanced to the semi-finals of the Stage 32 Happy Writers Search for New Blood screenwriting contest.
From the announcement: “Our 2nd Annual Stage 32 Happy Writers Search for New Blood Screenwriting Contest was a record breaker! We received thousands of scripts from all over the world looking to compete in what has become one of the most highly respected screenwriting contests in the industry.”
Here’s the full list:
My supernatural Western A SIX-GUN FOR THE DEVIL has made the quarter-finals of the Stage 32 Happy Writers Search for New Blood Screenwriting Competition.
I’m quite pleased about that.
Competition was fierce, as there were thousands of entries. Congratulations to the other quarter-finalists. Here is the announcement of the full list.
The screenplay for my supernatural Western feature A SIX-GUN FOR THE DEVIL has been requested by Maximum Films and Management in New York.
I’m quite chuffed about that.
The request came after a Happy Writers pitch session on Stage 32.
Now it’s back to the fourth redraft of my ‘zombie movie without any zombies’….
I’m currently coaxing a spec sci-fi feature screenplay to move from the 4th to the 5th draft. Then I’ll hopefully start on the marketing. Here’s a hint of what it’s about:
PS The website has been spring cleaned. You’d be amazed what I found behind the furniture. Anyway, it’s neater now, I think.
It’s called RIDERS ON THE STORM. It’s a sci-fi destruction thriller themed round an alien invasion and the er…
somewhat unusual resistance deployed by we Earthlings. And the feature-length screenplay is one of the quarter
finalists in the New Blood scriptwriting contest run by Stage 32 and the Blood List.
This high-profile Hollywood scriptwriting competition describes itself thus: “Our exclusive panel of industry judges
are looking for scripts in all areas of horror, thriller, and suspense… All finalists will be listed in a special section of The Blood List and be exposed to top industry execs.”
I’m quite pleased about this.
The full list can be found here. I’m under ‘G’.
Running Scared, a tense pursuit thriller, goes into production next week, with filming at various spectacular
outdoor locations in Tennessee. Yowsa.
The story: In rough country, three teenage boys are running for their lives from a mysterious group equipped with
helicopters and automatic weapons. Who are the pursuers? Why are they hunting down and killing youngsters?
The answer comes when the sole survivor finally reaches his destination – and it’s nasty.
Writing the script for the ten-minute short was a hoot. It’s now up to the crew and cast assembled by Pinpoint
Productions out of Florida to do the really hard work over three days’ location filming. It’s great, isn’t it? I write a
screenplay in France, and then before you know it people are running round the south-eastern United States with cameras and squibs of make-up blood.
I’ll keep you posted on the progress of the film. In the meantime, here are some of the likely locations for Running Scared:
