Thursday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell

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This new Film Courage segment (okay, 2015) is in response to a question about the fastest I have ever written a screenplay, and I decided t...

Monday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell

Monday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell

How do you keep your screenplay unpredictable? We look at 2022's 'Barbarian' for the answers... and a technique I call the “Change Up!” - a major plot twist that completely changes everything in the s...

Friday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell

Friday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell

FILM COURAGE did a series of interviews with me, around 36 (or more) segments total. That's almost a year's worth of material! So why not ad...

The "lost" interview Tom Snyder did with Hitchcock in 1973. (Lost interview - wouldn't it be cool if Hitchcock explained the TV show LOST? B...

thursday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell

What if you have 40 Thieves robbing passengers on an express train or a teacher with 40 Students or an office with 40 Executives? How to create distinctive minor character roles. From Weapons For Weir...

Script Secrets: Brave New Worlds

When writing an action movies, you need powerful action happening often... but how much juice is enough? William C. Martell gives insights into finding a balance between story and action.

It was supposed to be the crowning moment in the history of space travel. But when the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched. Only an intrepid journalist stands in the way of the cover-up, but the powers that be will stop at nothing to keep their secret from going public.

Stardate: The 23rd Century. Retired Starfleet officers James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Montgomery Scott (James Doohan) and Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) are guests of honor aboard the newly christened Enterprise-B. a test run takes an unexpected turn, however, when the starship encounters two vessels trapped inside the Nexus, a mysterious energy ribbon. During a perilous rescue attempt, Kirk is swept out into space. Seven decades later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of Enterprise-D rescue an El Aurian physicist named Soran (Malcolm McDowell). Unbeknownst to Picard, Soran harbors a deadly plan that includes the destruction of the Enterprise and millions of lives. Now Picard's only hope for a future rests within the Nexus... and a legendary captain from the past.

Last column we looked at the first two, which managed to be completely different than each other; and now we will look at the last 3 car chases which are also very different from one another. These th...

Wednesday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell

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