Script To Screen: “Panic Room”
From the 2002 thriller Panic Room, written by David Koepp.
From the 2002 thriller Panic Room, written by David Koepp.
Setup: Meg and daughter Sarah have just moved into an apartment. Now the place has been invaded by Bad Guys. Meg and Sarah are forced to respond.
Here is the scene in the script:
Here is the movie version of the scene:
One of the single best things you can do to learn the craft of screenwriting is to read the script while watching the movie. After all a screenplay is a blueprint to make a movie and it’s that magic of what happens between printed page and final print that can inform how you approach writing scenes. That is the purpose of Script to Screen, a Go Into The Story series where we analyze a memorable movie scene and the script pages that inspired it.
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