Two Screenplays (in correct spec format) - Softcover

Dave Trottier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885655150 ISBN 13: 9781885655158

Publisher: Applewood Arts, 2017

Synopsis

Countless of Dave Trottier's clients and screenwriting students have asked him for a rarity that most all developing screenwriters wish they had - a genuine spec screenplay with the following characteristics:

-- It must be a spec script that a Hollywood reader fell in love with and recommended for purchase and production. At that point, the spec screenplay is converted into a shooting (or production) script.

-- The same successful script must also be written in industry standard, spec screenplay format. Developing screenwriters want to see how correct format enhances the presentation of the story.

This book contains two successful spec scripts in correct spec format. Both made it to the pre-production stage with established talent attached.

TWO SCRIPTS TO LEARN FROM

Actual spec scripts like these two are difficult to find because virtually all screenplays available to read or buy are shooting scripts, which often contain camera directions and other technical intrusions, such as scene numbers. Unless you are being paid to write, you are writing a spec script.

Now you can apply principles gleaned from reading these two screenplays to craft your own entertaining movie script.

A WINDOW IN TIME

Wrongly charged with treason, a brilliant young NASA engineer gets another shock: a woman from the future claims to be his wife of ten years. Together they unravel a terrorist conspiracy, and ultimately travel to the future intending to foil the calamitous plot and undo his untimely death.

A SUMMER WITH HEMINGWAY'S TWIN
Ernest Hemingway had a twin? He did! And no one has told her story...until now. This lyrical ode to creativity reveals the Hemingway women as they were in 1939 Ernest s mother, his twin sister Marcelline, and the spunky coed who idolizes him and wants to write like him.

Both of the above screenplays come with introductory material about their history, content, and marketing.

About this title

About the Author

Dave Trottier (AKA Dr. Format) has sold or optioned ten screenplays (three produced), and helped hundreds of writers break into the writing business. He is an award-winning teacher and in-demand script consultant, author of The Screenwriter's Bible and friendly host of keepwriting.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Applewood Arts
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1885655150
• ISBN 13: 9781885655158
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 228