Got to love a great logline. I laughed out loud when I read this one.
DAN HELSING
“When a twenty-something stoner learns he is related to legendary monster hunter Van Helsing, he changes his slacker ways to save the world.” Read More…
For the comedy writers out there - here are a couple of gems. The Napoleon Dynamite script (which I’ve been periodically chasing for years). And the script for Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Oh, also, I read the Get Him to the Greek script today - thought it was pretty funny. Read More…
I’ve been on a writing retreat in the North Queensland rainforest for the past month and all this writing time has got me thinking about “off” writing days – the ones where you seem to get “nothing” done – the ones that make you feel like a fraud. Like a loser. Like masturbating.
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A win April 7, 2010
So Film Victoria have been kind enough to award me and my producer, Polly Staniford, outline to treatment funding for a new feature script. It totally rules. Here’s an Encore magazine article on the funding round.
Now all that’s left to do is write it. Easy, right?
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Heard this in an interview with Ted Griffin:
“Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog - no-one enjoys it and the frog dies.”
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“As long as we’re making shit up, let’s go hog-wild”
Bill Hicks, Rant in E Minor.
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Have you ever noticed that sometimes dreams have set-ups and pay-offs? I had one last night in which I was doing something or other when I saw a small group of people that looked like a cross between Devo and a diver from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – they had these coloured [...] Read More…
Tinyband January 27, 2010
Well, I’ve been beavering away for a year or so on a script that I’ve not talked about in any detail on this blog (or anywhere online), but yesterday a friend pointed out that the synopsis is up on the Film Victoria site, so it seems there’s no point sitting on it any longer. Might [...] Read More…
So my favourite comedy writer, Chris Morris, has just premiered his first feature film at Sundance. It’s called Four Lions and it looks shit hot.
I posted a clip from the film on Videosift and it shot to number 1. So hopefully that gives the film a weeny bit more buzz.
Yesterday I listened to an interview [...] Read More…
Freelance copywriting subsidises my masochistic obsession with screenwriting. For a long while I’ve justified it by focusing on how writing copy benefits my screenwriting craft.
Copy and screen writing are similar in that you’re always presented with too much information and it’s your job to find the spine of the thing. In both forms you need [...] Read More…
