THE HIT LIST SCREENPLAYS PRO

If you're an industry pro and interested in viewing the work of these emerging screenwriters, please request Industry Pro status. Only ISAConnect Members are included here. These writers continue to take the initiative to attend meetings around town, submit to and win contests, set up projects with producers and production companies, and produce their own content, supported by the ISA Development Team. The Top 25 have shown what can be achieved with dedication to their craft and career, and this, alongside their recent success stories, is why they were chosen. Many have also landed multiple paid writing assignments or procured representation at major agencies and management companies. Highlights include having a short film selected and presented at the Cannes International FiIm Festival, receiving an Oscar nomination, placing as a Grand Prize winner in a contest, and chosen as a Fellowship writer. These chosen writers have gone above and beyond to grow, improve, and get noticed, smashing their goals and achieving incredible success in the past year.

Some of this high-octane drama was lost in the screen translation, which is a shame, since the script is as good as it gets.The TOP 25 and ISA Development Slate were designed to promote and congratulate ISAConnect members who have proven themselves to be noticeably hardworking and dedicated to carving a career with a strong foundation. In one instance he 'trades up' for superstar Bo Callahan, sacrificing his team's first round picks for the next four years, and then doubts whether Callahan is the man for the team after all.ĭraft Day reads like it's set in a warzone, and shines a light on the frenzied backstairs machinations that besets the NFL on transfer day.

Sonny Jnr is hit with setback after setback he's a laughing stock, the players are against him, the fans are against him, he's being outmanoeuvred by rival clubs, he's forced to take wildly risky chances on superstar players.

The reason Draft Day works so well as a script is it follows one of the central tenets of screenwriting which is, 'thou shalt make things as hard as possible for your protagonist.'. The duo’s previous script MAYDAY 109 landed on the 2015 Hit List and Black List before it was acquired by Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Pictures, with Beau Flynn attached to produce, and Ansel Elgort set to star. However, there is one major aspect of the 80s that Stranger Things has only referenced in bits and pieces. From arcades to shopping malls to music, it seems as though the show has nearly covered all of the bases. SummitĮverything that can go wrong does go wrong for our poor beleaguered coach, Sonny Weaver Jnr, general manager of the declining Buffalo Bills and son to the beloved Sonny Weaver, the talismanic icon of the Buffalo's, whom Sonny Jnr fired-talk about a gutsy call! Worse, Sonny's dad's just died today, which coincides with the day all hell breaks loose on the trading floor that is the drafting system of NFL-in short, it's a tough day for Sonny Jnr to navigate. Evan & Samuel were just named to Variety Magazine’s 2017 List of 10 Screenwriters to Watch. Stranger Things, the hit Netflix television series, takes place in the 1980s and has explored many of the iconic elements from that decade. Everything happened at a million miles an hour in this script, every decision was made in relation to a ticking clock, the frantic backroom panic was visceral and credible. We turned five of their screenplays into comics, including scripts by Elissa Karasik, Michael Waldron. Its focus on deadline day was a novel approach to the sports drama genre, imbuing the script with an immediacy and urgency we hadn't seen before. The 2018 Black List is a look inside the minds of Hollywood’s next great screenwriters. The story of a single hectic day, the eponymous Draft Day of the NFL, was a surprise hit in the screenwriting community, indeed, becoming the number one script of 2012's Black List, a listing of the best unproduced screenplays of the year.

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