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Any Screenwriters On The Board??
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I saw on YouTube that companies like "A24" are producing great movies. I'm hoping that I can get with a company like them, because my screenplay is going to be out of the ordinary.
It won't fit into a cookie cutter mold.
That goes without saying, Bruh...
I'm sixty pages in. I was going for a "Short Film" which should be around forty. But it started running over. So I'm shooting for ninety.
Over the weekend, Barry Jenkins had two films in the top 10 at the box office. Mufasa was number one with him as director and he wrote The Fire Inside (10th). I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere but this might be a first for a Black filmmaker, maybe any filmmaker.
I think MORE black writers need to attack this lane
Its VERY profitable
and the audience is THERE
and they are actively trying to tap into it more.
There is ABSOLUTLEY no reason there is not a Black version of Goonies or Stand By Me or Skeleton Crew or Harry Potter etc as a franchise.
We could DEFINETLY team up to do THAT.
we need more good black kid friendly family friendly entertainment (especially hip hop influenced)
2025 BLACK FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT
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You're not wrong about more Black family entertainment. There are many Black authors, comic book creators and screenwriters currently creating it. However, it's not uncommon to see projects from white authors leapfrog to theaters and streaming while similar Black projects get stuck in development hell.
Maybe this guy will break through
I'm not so sure about this part anymore. The audience is there potentially. We don't support everything. Even Black audiences can be fickle.
This new generation is different. They don't want stories about slavery (any kind of period piece), "struggle love" or any kind of trauma (conflict) in Black movies. A lot of millennials can't stand Love & Basketball. Quincy and Monica's relationship was too toxic. They're disgusted that she challenged him to a game of one-on-one for his heart.
They'll correctly point out colorism dark-skinned women face in the entertainment industry but pay them dust when their albums, movies and TV shows drop. Marsai Martin produced a coming-of-age show for Disney, The Saturdays. Exactly the kind of wholesome entertainment folks claim they want. Lasted one season. The Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur cartoon won five Children and Family Emmy awards. Two seasons.
I mentioned The Fire Inside a few days ago. It has a 95% rotten tomatoes score, written by an Oscar-winning screenwriter, the true story about Claressa Sheilds, the first woman to win gold in Boxing at the Olympics. She also happened to be 17 at the time. Even the recent drama between Remy Ma, Papoose, and Claressa wasn't enough to get folks interested. Opened in tenth place.
Not saying all of this to shame or blame folks, just that it's not always about writing a great story or giving the audience what they (claim to) want. Sometimes it all comes down to the right story at the right time. In other words, luck.
Raze not here for the bullsh*t in 2025.
Not one single solitary lie told
All facts with multiple receipts
Even made sure to throw my own lines back because I have been saying similar things before and conveniently forgot my own points.
Bro I like this a whole lot and it should be submitted as a think piece for the major trades or maybe just a social media post.
This is a good discussion
We ARE hypocrites
Moon girl is EXACTLY what we claim we want companies like Marvel to produce.
Latinos should have supported Blue Beetle
We don't support
But Super cell worked I wonder if Netflix would be willing to reveal the racial breakdown of viewership in this lifetime?
I don't know the answer.
It's not bad writing or even cheap production. It's not bad marketing.
I gotta think on this more
Greetings BGOL FAM...
I finished the first draft of my screenplay this morning. It's a Supernatural Thriller. I sent it off to the Copyright Office about an hour ago.
I've written stories before, but this is my first formal attempt at creating a screenplay. I'm going wait a few days to get some information back from the Copyright Office, then I'll share it here, for critiquing.
The logline will likely change (I'm still kicking ideas around), but this is where it stands as of today:
"After accepting an apparently benign gift, a poised real
estate broker unknowingly triggers a series of mystical
events which lead to a lethal confrontation between himself
and a murderous nihilist."
I finished the first draft of my screenplay this morning. It's a Supernatural Thriller. I sent it off to the Copyright Office about an hour ago.
I've written stories before, but this is my first formal attempt at creating a screenplay. I'm going wait a few days to get some information back from the Copyright Office, then I'll share it here, for critiquing.
The logline will likely change (I'm still kicking ideas around), but this is where it stands as of today:
"After accepting an apparently benign gift, a poised real
estate broker unknowingly triggers a series of mystical
events which lead to a lethal confrontation between himself
and a murderous nihilist."
Thanks, but I'm only repeating what's been said many times before. People don't know what they want until they want it.
^^^^
I been saying this for a decade on here no one accepts it
People blame studios
Go check the box office numbers AFTER the Wayans left
They were ALL complete UTTER TRASH
and all massively profitable.
What that say?
Yeah 50 keeps producing drug operas and Tyler making chitlin circuit TV and movies
But the people LOVE it.
And I can't be MAD
and don't forget hate watching.
I don't even understand wtf is going with this audience they SAY they want one thing but support the opposite
The funniest shit is that if you really think about it this is how damn near every movie or book you see/read Is built. I haven't seen this post in over a decade, but the novel that I completed has all of these points.
While my novel doesn't have a bad guy per se, the protagonist conscience comes to slap her in the face about her actions. I'm really proud of it and I can't wait to share it with the world
How did things work out for you in the writing world, I'm curious. Looking at this thread from 15 years ago I was wondering how you progressed
What I tried to do was write a movie that I would like to see on the Big Screen myself. I didn't dumb any characters down. There's no, "Hey, you jive time turkey!" lines.
When it's all said and done, "if we want to see better movies, then it's up to us to write better movies."
It has to start somewhere, it might as well start with me. That's my philosophy on the subject. I wrote this for me. I'm hoping that others can/will appreciate the work I put in when they read/see it... then follow suit.
Marvel completely rewrote Namor's origin for Wakanda Forever, changed Atlantis to Talocan, cast a brown-skinned Mexican man as the antagonist (not villain), ran everything through consultants so the film would be respectful to Mesoamerican culture, had the same Oscar-winning production designer creating Talocan, even included Spanish-only songs on the soundtrack. What was the result? It made an extra 7 million in Mexico compared to Black Panther but overall grossed less across Latin America.
I could make the same case for Andor.
Maybe Latinos will show up in droves for Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards but who knows?
I think it comes down to the fact that social media is not real life. A lot of the passionate voices we see online represent a tiny but vocal minority. The silent majority calls the shots.
Early post of the year nomination
Greetings BGOL Fam,
I've had this idea for a screenplay in my head, and I finally decided to put it down on paper.
1) The Genre: Supernatural Thriller.
2) The title of the work is "ONE WISH."
3) The Logline:
After accepting an apparently benign gift, a poised real estate broker unknowingly triggers a
series of mystical events which leads to a lethal confrontation between himself and a murderous nihilist.
4) The Tagline:
"Some wishes burn."
The first draft of the work goes without saying that there may be grammatical and spelling errors.
But I see what's in my head sometimes versus what's actually on the page. At this point though, I'm going to take
a step back from reading it etc... So when I look at it again, I'll be doing it with a fresh set of eyes.
I've had this idea for a screenplay in my head, and I finally decided to put it down on paper.
1) The Genre: Supernatural Thriller.
2) The title of the work is "ONE WISH."
3) The Logline:
After accepting an apparently benign gift, a poised real estate broker unknowingly triggers a
series of mystical events which leads to a lethal confrontation between himself and a murderous nihilist.
4) The Tagline:
"Some wishes burn."
The first draft of the work goes without saying that there may be grammatical and spelling errors.
But I see what's in my head sometimes versus what's actually on the page. At this point though, I'm going to take
a step back from reading it etc... So when I look at it again, I'll be doing it with a fresh set of eyes.
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I sold one screenplay qne I'm trying to sell sit com.
This could bring something
There are bad movies being made all the time. Just like there are small "art house" type movies that are up for awards comes golden globes/oscar season. These types of moves will not get nominations for BET awards but I do think that with more of this content put out there, it will get shine at a few of these award shows
I think Black Panther is a bad example because it was still black panther. If it was mexican panther or something, maybe it would have done better. Also I think people underestimated Chadwick being gone and the fact that Shuri was taking over. As we saw during the election, Latinos aren't going to cheer for a black woman beating a "mexican" man.
I'm not saying that Wakanda Forever should have made $100M in Mexico alone or that it was a flop because it didn't. My point was that even when you give audiences what they claim to want: no stereotypes and being respectful to the culture, it doesn't always pay off.
I mentioned Andor as well. It's the same situation. They built an entire show around a Chilean actor, explained away his Spanish accent, cast a Puerto Rican actress as his ex, aired some episodes across Hulu, ABC, Freeform, and FX. 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Andor received 8 Emmy nominations: Outstanding Writing in a Drama, Outstanding Directing, Acting (Diego Luna), etc.
All that to be the second least-watched live-action show on Disney+ after Ms. Marvel.
In the first Aquaman movie, Jason Momoa's tattoos and his brown Dad were the extent of his Polynesian heritage. They had time for a drumming octopus in Atlantis, though. The movie made a billion dollars.
It is what it is.
I agree with this. Unfortunately watching YouTube vids on comics, vids get recommended of disney/marvel and the "woke" culture failing
I tell you what, it feels so good to be back writing again. I came up with a chilling end to the second novel, though I am nowhere near 50% done with it.
This ending here would scare the shit out of anyone. I paid homage to Pulp Fiction, "You lost your LA privileges" But I tell you if someone said to you what my character said to the antagonist you would definitely be terrified.
I think I'm going to approach my novel and other works differently from now on. Instead of trying to write it all from start to finish, I'm going to break it up into sections, write the sections and put them together like a puzzle later on. That way it doesn't seem so daunting
The naughty nurse Chronicles is going to be the shit
This ending here would scare the shit out of anyone. I paid homage to Pulp Fiction, "You lost your LA privileges" But I tell you if someone said to you what my character said to the antagonist you would definitely be terrified.
I think I'm going to approach my novel and other works differently from now on. Instead of trying to write it all from start to finish, I'm going to break it up into sections, write the sections and put them together like a puzzle later on. That way it doesn't seem so daunting
The naughty nurse Chronicles is going to be the shit
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I think that's a good way to go, because somethings will just seem to want to go together.
When I wrote my screenplay, I actually had the end before I had the beginning. Yes, the end was written first.
It was like I was already at the destination, now it's a matter of which way (of many) do I take to get back home. I know it sounds crazy, but that's how it was for me.