Recommended Screenwriters

ScreenwritingU Alum, Marla Hayes (ProSeries 4) has landed representation with Starring Entertainment, a new boutique agency based in Los Angeles. Founder Branden Cobb will manage Marla’s entire slate of screenplays.  Marla has been with ScreenwritingU since the early days.  It is nice to see success happening for her! Congratulations, Marla!

Do you have an idea about creating an expansive world for your screenplay? Perhaps you want to invent a world as massive as Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. Screenwriter Tom Rogers goes through the process step-by-step as he worked with the writers and animators at Disney Pictures to develop the animated world of

Screenwriter Paul Shoulberg started his writing career as a playwright. So, how did he go from writing plays in New York to living in the Midwest and writing a script about a man named Walter who is in charge of deciding who goes to heaven and hell? Shoulberg started with a monologue. Just a few

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the little indie film with the big actors, took everyone by surprise in 2012 when it grossed $90 million worldwide. The cast included Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel and Tom Wilkinson in a story about retirees who have decided to spend their golden years living in India.

ScreenwritingU Alum Drew Foerster (ProSeries 17, MSC 1) has his teen comedy SEVEN TEDLY SINS optioned by Producer Carey Borth. Director Charles Matthau is attached to helm the project. Charles is the son of actor Walter Matthau and directed FREAK DEAKY starring Christian Slater, and 6 other films.   Previously, Drew optioned his comedy screenplay

ScreenwritingU Alum Isabel Holtreman Baldree (ProSeries35, MSC 2)  has been hired to do a rewrite by producer Vahe' Mansourian. of Lucine Distribution. The story, an epic drama set in Los Angeles and the Middle East, explores the horrors of genocide.The project is in development and scheduled to shoot in 2015. Fantastic News, Isabel!    

The indie sensation that has everyone talking is a new teen comedy about Duffs. What’s a Duff? Designated ugly fat friend. Wait, what? Yep. High school has term for everything nowadays. When Bianca, played by Mae Whitman of Parentood fame, finds out she’s the designated ugly fat friend in her circle at high school, her

If you’re writing a switch movie this is the podcast for you. What’s a switch movie, you ask…?  It’s only one of the greatest inventions of filmmaking – where one character’s mind gets teleported into another character’s body. Think Jodie Foster in the 1976 version of Freaky Friday. And then, Jamie Lee Curtis in the

Kay Cannon got the idea for Pitch Perfect while working as a writer on 30 Rock. She says however that everyone she pitched it to turned her down. That is until she talked to actress and producer Elizabeth Banks. CUT TO: Cannon is now gearing up for the sequel to the immensely popular girl musical

Screenwriter Graham Moore has been obsessed with mathematician Alan Turing since he was a teenager. This obsession paid off. He is now nominated for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for The Imitation Game – the story of how the code-breaking genius cracked the Nazi encryption machine and won World War II. So, how did