Overall Impression – A boy, a soldier, two soldiers, a girl, another soldier, another soldier, and finally back to a boy and his horse. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Joey, the horse. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Be the best darn horse ever. Personal: Stay alive. Private: Get back to […]
My Coffee Can Beat Up Your Coffee
Hey all: After a long sojourn in Toronto I’ve just returned to Los Angeles, my old, new home base. If you’ve read my book My Story Can Beat Up Your Story you’ll know that I love screenwriting and have some pretty specific ideas about what makes screenplays work and how writers can develop and maintain […]
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and PadWorx and You
I hope you’re not getting tired of hearing about PadWorx Digital Media because — as I’ve been going on about for the past year — the move into digital and transmedia is only continuing to heat up and those screenwriters who neglect to pay attention to this space are going to be like the movie […]
PadWorx Goes Mad for EA
My company, PadWorx Digital Media, Inc., had the honor of desiging and building the enhanced storybook app for the upcoming Electronic Arts game Alice: Madness Returns™, the sequel to the critically acclaimed game American McGee’s Alice™. Versions of the app for iOS and Android were released in May, 2011. Designed to bridge the ten year gap between American […]
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
Overall Impression – Perfunctory storytelling meets lack of charisma. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto). What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Kill Sebastian Shaw. Personal: Work with Charles Xavier to find and recruit fellow mutants. Private: Create the family he was deprived of as a child. Who’s trying to […]
