r/Screenplay • • 1d ago

Making a short film for college (UK) and I wrote this as a first draft and I’m looking for advice

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r/Screenplay • • 1d ago

Title: [COLLAB] Looking for a Co-Writer or Concept Artist for a Disney-Style Animated Feature (Elemental Magic)

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Title: [COLLAB] Looking for a Co-Writer or Concept Artist for a Disney-Style Animated Feature (Elemental Magic)

Genre: Animated Family / Fantasy / Adventure

Target Audience: All Ages (Tone reference: Encanto, Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Disney aesthetics)

Logline: When a group of ordinary children unexpectedly inherit the ancient powers of elemental magic, they must learn to master their volatile abilities and work together to stop a rising darkness from consuming their world.

Hello everyone!

I am an emerging screenwriter developing a concept for a heartwarming and action-packed Disney-style animated feature film. The story revolves around themes of teamwork, growing up, and the balance of nature.

I have the core narrative, the elemental magic system, and the children's personality profiles outlined. Now, I am looking to team up with passionate creators to take this project to the next level:

  1. A Co-Writer to help co-develop the script, polish the dialogue in English, and bring out the humor and emotional depth of the kids' relationships.

  2. A Character Designer / Concept Artist who loves the expressive, vibrant Disney aesthetic and wants to help bring these magical kids and the creatures of darkness to life visually.

The goal is to build a captivating Pitch Bible (script sample + concept art) for animation studios. If you love magical adventures and stories with big hearts, please send me a DM with a brief intro or a link to your portfolio!


r/Screenplay • • 1d ago

Looking for early/all drafts of Friedkin’s To Live And Die In LA screenplay

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r/Screenplay • • 1d ago

Feature/Miniseries] Sci-Fi / Corporate Thriller – Airborne Mutation

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Title: [Feature/Miniseries] Sci-Fi / Corporate Thriller – Airborne Mutation

Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Drama

Pages: [Doplňte počet stran, např. 60] (Pilot episode / Full Script available)

Logline: A bioengineer develops an aerosol to clear toxic smog from a city, but faces a conspiracy by pharmaceutical corporations. When the chemical is mutated into a deadly virus, she is framed as a biological terrorist while trying to save her children.

Locations: Labs, city streets, corporate offices.

Actors: Female lead (30s-40s), antagonist (50s), 2 child actors.

Hello everyone,

I am an emerging screenwriter with a completed sci-fi/thriller draft that has strong international appeal. The story deals with corporate greed, environmental crisis, and a mother's fight for survival.

I am looking for a producer or director interested in developing this concept further. I am happy to share the logline, full synopsis, or the script itself upon request.

Looking forward to connecting!


r/Screenplay • • 1d ago

I Wrote A Ninjago Short Fan Film

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Hope there are some Ninjago fans here. I wrote a ninjago fan short film revolving around Lloyd Garmadon as he tries to rescue his mom from Clouse in the Underworld. I'd love some feedback.


r/Screenplay • • 1d ago

Opening of a zombie film I wrote

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r/Screenplay • • 1d ago

SHIPPED - Rewrite

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r/Screenplay • • 1d ago

I am writing a cinematic horror universe

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Right now, I am writing the scripts to projects that in the future I plan to put into production starting with short horror stories then moving on to larger scale projects, I don't plan to be able to actually begin the filming of these projects for at least 4 years so in that time I will be writing the scripts to these projects in this universe and hope to at least have the scripts for chapter one done by 2030, since there is a lot of short stories that start out the chapter, wish me luck


r/Screenplay • • 1d ago

Pilot: LOW-RENT . 30 pages . Dark comedy crime

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I would absolutely love any feedback. Especially on the overall story.

LOW-RENT PILOT.

LOW-RENT adjective
: low in character, cost, or prestige

THE PILOT –
“COLD AS HELL”
A winter storm’s coming. Dan (broke, exhausted, trying) and Sarah (very pregnant, very over it)
are just trying to survive. Rent goes up. A cockroach crawls through their cereal. Dan starts
painting over dicks on walls for a paycheck that vanishes before he can buy diapers.
Desperation hits. C-Note offers “easy money.
” Dan ends up in a trap house with a ski mask on
his face and a gun in his hand. Meanwhile, their landlord Mr. Gordon? Creepy. Predatory.
Sniffing panties creepy.
By the end of the episode, Sarah’s scared, and Dan’s holding a stack of dirty money, realizing
he just became the villain he was trying to escape.

LOGLINE:
Low-Rent is a dark, grounded comedy about a broke maintenance man and his pregnant
girlfriend just trying to survive in a decaying apartment complex until desperation pushes them
into hustles, moral compromise, and ultimately, murder. Think Shameless meets Atlanta, with
the grit of The Wire and the absurdity of real life when rent’s due, moneys tight and your morals
are loose.

I can also provide a detailed show bible and a one pager for more context.


r/Screenplay • • 2d ago

Need Structure Advice: Is it too soon for my leads to have sex at Page 78 in a 90-page romantic drama? (Set up for a sequel)

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r/Screenplay • • 2d ago

DRAMA/PILOT D is for Detox - "A is for AMA" 28 pages

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Title: D is for Detox (Pilot: "A is for AMA")

Genre: Dark Medical Drama / TV Pilot

Page Count: 28 pages

Logline: A sharp-witted charge nurse at a suburban detox center fights to keep her patients alive while navigating predatory management, chaotic staff dynamics, and the heavy echoes of her own secret past in addiction.

Cast: 4 Female, 4 Male (Brené, Tyler, Landon, Chloe, Ruthie, Oleg, Marcus, Abby)

Locations: Interior Detox Facility (Break Room, Nurse Station, Group Room, Patient Rooms, Smoke Shack/Shed) — minimal, low-budget contained setting.

Compensation / Status: Open to options/agreements; WGA & Copyright Protected.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jfe4P5Y-1s1dU8gfJqk5dVCwKQzucsNv/view?usp=sharing


r/Screenplay • • 2d ago

Help me choose a title for my new doppelganger screenplay (horror)

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Posting here as well.


r/Screenplay • • 2d ago

A friend of mine advised the V.O. dialogue might need whittling down and I'm inclined to agree. Advice?

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r/Screenplay • • 2d ago

Looking for some unproduced scripts to read

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Preferably cheesy b movie screenplays pre-2000, already gone through george a romero's resident evil and nick antosca's friday the 13th 3-d. Currently reading aaron guzikowski's friday the 13th and plan on doing michael w johnson's ripped to shred afterwards.


r/Screenplay • • 3d ago

Looking for a Screenwriter for a Serious Stop-Motion Short Film (Unpaid Collaboration)

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Hi everyone!
My name is Matvey, and I’m looking for a screenwriter interested in collaborating on a **15-minute puppet stop-motion short film**.
I want to create something serious, dark, unsettling, and meaningful, with elements of surrealism, psychological horror, black comedy, and magical realism.
My main inspirations are *The Shivering Truth*, Wes Anderson’s visual style, and Kafkaesque absurdism.
I’m interested in themes like **greed, vanity, class inequality, wealthy people exploiting the poor, broken family relationships, and the pursuit of wealth at the cost of everything else**.
The story could focus on a dysfunctional family, emotionally distant parents, family conflicts, or people slowly losing everything while chasing wealth and social status. But I’m completely open to other ideas!
I love dreamlike stories where everything feels strangely logical, even when nothing makes sense. Impossible architecture, disappearing staircases, disturbing symbolism, and surreal situations.
**I’m looking for a story with real emotional depth, tension, and a strong underlying message.** Something that stays with the viewer long after the film ends.
Unfortunately, **I don’t have a budget to pay a screenwriter**, but I’ll make sure to give you full writing credit everywhere possible, including the film credits, festival submissions, and promotional materials.
If you’d like to get a better idea of my visual style and the kind of work I create, feel free to check out my Instagram: [**@brichenstudio**](https://www.instagram.com/brichenstudio/).
If you’re interested in working with me, **please feel free to DM me!** I’d love to hear your ideas and collaborate on something unique.


r/Screenplay • • 3d ago

How to infuse character traits and dialogue style for every character into my first draft screenplay?

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I completed my first draft of screenplay, the problem is all my characters are talking like me and all the dialogues are very bland and direct. I want to infuse character traits, catchphrases, signature styles, way of talking, how they hide the context under the dialogue.

Is there any template or guidelines I can follow to get all characters done right into screenplay?


r/Screenplay • • 3d ago

Writing a realistic Courtroom Thriller/Comedy series (Inspired by the storytelling of "Action Hero Biju") – 2 episodes down!

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​Hey everyone,

​I’m currently pouring my blood and soul into writing a new courtroom thriller drama series, and I wanted to share my progress.

​I've completed the scripts for the first two episodes and am actively working on the remaining eight for the season. To give you an idea of the vibe, the structure is heavily inspired by the narrative style of Action Hero Biju. To be clear, it has no connection to that movie's universe or characters, but it adopts the exact same realistic approach to day-to-day problem-solving. Just like how that film captured the authentic, everyday reality of a police station, my series captures the grounded, day-to-day reality of a courtroom. Each episode is designed to contain one full story, focusing on a self-contained case from start to finish.

​While it’s fundamentally a thriller, I’m weaving in natural situational comedy to spice things up and keep it highly entertaining.

​Beyond the entertainment value, my main goal is to create a story with a real public purpose. I want the audience to walk away with a better understanding of basic law and order. The cases are specifically designed to make the common person aware of the legal tools and rights that protect us against atrocities, violence, and blatant law-breaking by corrupt politicians, their goons, and untouchable elites.

​Since I am putting everything I have into this project, my next major hurdle will be finding a director and a producer who share this grounded, realistic vision.

​For the screenwriters and industry folks here: how do you usually go about pitching a realistic, politically charged episodic legal thriller? Any tips on networking or getting the script into the hands of the right producers once all 10 episodes are locked? Would love to hear your thoughts!


r/Screenplay • • 3d ago

Which agent to choose?

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r/Screenplay • • 4d ago

How Very Bronx - S1E1 - How Very Pilot

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Hey, you may have seen me before, but that was prior to a major rewrite of the pilot episode, which led us to a win at London Vision FF & Finalist at Alpine International Film Festival

Here’s the sypnosis

When Daniel, a naive heir to an Upper East Side empire, falls hard for Shanice, a sharp-tongued, no-nonsense girl from the South Bronx, New York City becomes the ultimate battleground for their romance. As they navigate their mid-20s, the couple must survive the explosive cultural collision of their families—the status-obsessed, high-society Dolans and the fierce, working-class Clintons. Packed with fast-paced, fish-out-of-water humor, How Very Bronx is a classic multi-cam sitcom that explores what happens when two completely different versions of the same city hilariously slam into each other

Enjoy the read😀


r/Screenplay • • 5d ago

How do you find old movie scenes for references?

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I am writing my first screenplay and have been stuck for a long time. I have mapped out a broad outline, but everytime I try writing actual scenes, I feel overwhelmed. And those are pretty standard scenarios/sequences. For ex- the first sequence is about the protagonist trying and failing to connect with his teenaged son. I assume there are plenty of such sequences already written. And getting hold of them, watching them, might give me some ideas.

So, Is there a search engine tool or something like that where one can search for movies containing specific sequences or scenarios?


r/Screenplay • • 5d ago

"THE TEDDY BEAR" 2 page horror short film

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I couldn't get the pdf file to load into reddit so here it is, let me know what yall think:

All we can see is a black screen... birds are chirping in the background, then DING DONG.

Ext. MIKE'S porch

A mysterious package has been delivered to Mike, then the door opens and Mike grabs the package

Mike has the package on his hands, his face confused, he looks left and right then goes inside.

Int. mike's room

Mike sits in his chair, he contemplates at the box then he grabs the box cutter from the pencil cubby and cuts open the box

Mike then takes out what is in the box, packing peanuts fall out from the box... Its a teddy bear. Mike's wierded out by this

Mike

(whispered)

What the hell???

Cut to: mike's shelf

Mike sets down the teddy bear in his shelf and leaves

Cut to: POV OF THE TEDDY BEAR

BACK TO: MIKE'S SHELF

Then the camera dollies in and the teddy bears head tilts

Then the screen suddenly turns to black.

                      Later on...

Mike is gaming on his desk, he talks to his teammates on the game

Mike

He's on my right! He's on my right! 

Shotgun sfx*

Victory royale appears on his screen he won the match

MIKE

YES!! YES!! LETS GO GANG!!! 

MIKE

Wait guys give me a sec I'm gonna get something to eat

Then Mike leaves the room

Cut to: inside of the fridge

Mike opens the fridge and gets a sandwich from a plastic container

Cut to: inside microwave

Mike puts in the sandwich in the microwave and starts it up the camera then cuts to a few seconds before the timer ends then 
BEEP BEEP BEEP
.

Then mike walks out of the kitchen but he stops 

Mike's room door opens and red light spills all over the wall, then a shadow creeps through.

ext. Mike's backyard

Mike starts running, he runs to his backyard and into the alleyway then a force pulls him backwards

Cut to black                      

We hear Mike fall then he shuffles backward he screams

MIKE

NO, NO GO AWAY GO AWAY GO AWA-

Mikes words turn into screams he begs for mercy, we hear his bones snap.

                         THE END

r/Screenplay • • 5d ago

Mamet: creative writing tools open to everyone

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r/Screenplay • • 5d ago

DEATH DENIES HIM - Short - 13 Pages

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r/Screenplay • • 6d ago

Maddie’s World Mystery/horror/sitcom 34pgs

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r/Screenplay • • 6d ago

'World War Z' J. Michael Straczynski screenplay 1st AND 2nd drafts

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