In this week’s edition of How Do You Script, we look at:
James Gunn announces Man of Tomorrow as next installment in his Superman saga, why you should write unproduced screenplays, screenwriting advice from Watchmen creator Alan Moore, and how Adolescence came to be.
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James Gunn unveils Man of Tomorrow as the next project in Superman saga, claims it won’t be “a direct sequel… but will feature characters audiences already know”.
Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) shares the secret skills behind great screenwriting.
Adam Petrey talks about the beauty of unproduced screenplays, including famous unproduced screenplays such as Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune.
From Wednesday to The Witch, a brief history of witches and sorcerers in cinema and TV and what their symbolism means in 2025.
Allan Heinberg discusses how the bonus episode of The Sandman was an inspired mix of the one-shot comic series Death: The High Cost of Living and an unproduced ‘Death’ screenplay written by Neil Gaiman and Guillermo del Toro.
Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne talks about how he and Stephen Grahame wrote the smash hit series and its real-world impact.
No Film School’s Jason Hellerman warns about “standard charlatan behavior” of script consulting service GET IT MADE and warns aspiring scriptwriters to stay away as the site can legally “OWN the work YOU did” if anyone pays and submits.
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