Scott Myers

Page One: “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” (2019)

Screenplay by Dan Hageman & Kevin Hageman, screen story by Guillermo del Toro and Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan, based on the series by…

Script Analysis: “The Favourite” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

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Page One: “Scary Movie” (2000)

Written by Shawn Wayans & Marlon Wayans & Buddy Johnson & Phil Beauman and Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer

Script Analysis: “Hanna” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:

On Writing

“Read, read, read. If you don’t study how the masters do things, you’ll never be a master yourself.”

Page One: “Scanners” (1981)

Written by David Cronenberg

Screenwriting 101: Christopher Hampton

“I’m not sure I’ve ever written a film with a traditional structure — I don’t believe in any of those rules for writing screenplays. What…

Script Analysis: “Prisoners” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:

Page One: “Saw” (2004)

Written by Leigh Whannell, story by James Wan and Leigh Whannell

Script Analysis: “The Silence of the Lambs” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

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On Writing

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”

Page One: “The Savages” (2007)

Written by Tamara Jenkins

Page One: “The Sandlot” (1993)

Written by David Mickey Evans & Robert Gunter

Page One: “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” (2011)

Written by Simon Beaufoy, novel by Paul Torday

Page One: “Saint Frances” (2019)

Written by Kelly O’Sullivan

Page One: “Safe House” (2012)

Written by David Guggenheim

Page One: “Rust and Bone” (2012)

Screenplay by Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, short stories by Craig Davidson

Page One: “Running Scared” (1986)

Screenplay by Gary DeVore and Jimmy Huston, story by Gary DeVore

Script Analysis: “The Good Dinosaur” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

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Page One: “Runaway Bride” (1999)

Written by Josann McGibbon & Sara Parriott

Screenwriting 101: Colin Higgins

“The job of the screenwriter is to run the film in the reader’s imagination. And nothing should get in the way of that. Good prose is the…

Script Analysis: “The Harder They Fall” — Scene-By-Scene Breakdown

Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:

On Writing

“On a metaphysical level, I do believe the story’s already written in some other dimension.”

Page One: “Run” (2020)

Written by Aneesh Chaganty & Sev Ohanian

Screenwriting 101: David Guggenheim

“I think in a spec you need to make sure you’re hooking your reader in that first fifteen pages, and that it has a strong enough concept…