Come on Disney+ give me the Aladdin animated series already.
What a bizarre franchise this has been. We will probably never get something this vast ever again without it being planned out in some sort of way. This is a 13 film blockbuster ‘continuity’ that just happened film by film.
Retweeting for posterity
Cher, Winona, Ricci and Hoskins should still be receiving Oscars every year just for this movie all other cinema is irrelevant this is the only film
This is a great solve for another problem I see a lot when reading scripts: The characters aren’t defined and all feel like pawns for the plot, without clear personalities to differentiate them. Make sure you know your characters very well before you start writing the script!
A good exercise I find is to take your main characters out of the story and just write a scene or two. What are they like out having dinner? What do they talk about? What do they argue about? What do they individually want? What is their life?
Good thread on a common problem. The seed of an idea often comes from a genre concept, which is of course fine, but you have to go back and find the emotional heart. No matter how outrageous the genre stuff, that core is the ruler by which every line in the script is measured.
Just finished a conversation with the director of a feature I'm producing, and here's a perspective from it that I've shared before. It might be useful for your genre #writing so I'll share it again for those that might have missed my earlier thread. It returns often in my work.
I think I was twelve? LOVED it.
What’s a movie you saw as a kid that critics hated but you thought was brilliant? Mine was “So I Married An Axe Murderer”. I thought it was hilarious and cool
According to imdb Ted Neeley is in Vanishing Point (‘71), so I asked him about it when we were on set, but he said imdb was wrong. I rewatched it today and I guess someone saw Delaney Bramlett (pics 2&3) in that movie, thought it was Ted and put it on imdb.
Are there more that I’m forgetting?
Wait is there no superhero movie with Channing Tatum? Why?
