Unmade Tales (From Script)
In this week’s round up brought to us by Script magazine, dive into Script‘s new series, “Unmade Tales,” in which we’ll spotlight scripts by pro writers that, because of the vagaries of the film industry, are unmade. Plus, read our Twisters review, an exclusive interview with indie filmmaker Kim Marcelino, and plug into the latest episode of Selling Your Screenplay Podcast.
SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep 524 – Writing Action and War Movies With Jesse Mittelstadt
Jesse Mittelstadt talks about writing action movies such as Altitude (2017) and most recently the war movie Murder Company (2024), as well as writing genre movies that cater to the AFM film market and independent movie distributors.
Bad Asian Makes Good on Filmmaker’s Quest for Cultural Identity
Filmmaker Kim Marcelino discusses how her short film Bad Asian about a romantic scenario let her explore the glaring hole in her life, find her community, and how her varied educational and career path led her to become a comedy filmmaker.
Twisters Review
The movie is an endearing ode to old-fashioned disaster flicks that had romance at the center and it’s a legacy sequel that delivers.
Unmade Tales: Lodestar
Welcome to the first installment of “Unmade Tales,” a new series in which we’ll spotlight scripts by pro writers that, because of the vagaries of the film industry, are unmade, or, as Joe O’Brien, co-writer of Lodestar, this article’s focus, says, “have yet to be made.”