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Carson Reeves @Scriptshadow

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Joined April 2009
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A rare Scriptshadow event. An amateur-written screenplay becomes one of my Top 25 Best Screenplays (this is out of 10,000 scripts). Come read the script for yourself! scriptshadow.net/screenplay-…

Screenplay Review – The Ballad of the Ember Knight

An amateur screenplay achieves the impossible and BLUDGEONS its way into my Top 25! Genre: Period/Adventure Premise: Amid the devastation of 14th century France’s war with England, a mysterious man…

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The first Blood & Ink Horror Contest screenplay review is up! scriptshadow.net/our-first-b…

OUR FIRST BLOOD & INK SCRIPT REVIEW! – THE MOLD

The Blood & Ink Horror Script Contest is a unique screenplay contest where you had to earn your way into the contest with a good enough concept. I accepted just under 100 entries. Those writers…

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Guaranteed to make you a better screenwriter by the end of the weekend - scriptshadow.net/20-screenwr…

20 Screenwriting Tips to Give Your Script an Immediate Infusion of Awesomeness

Tip #13! You will not get sceeewriting tips like this anywhere else on the internet. That’s why Scriptshadow is the best. You’ve got a dude reading thousands of scripts who sees real-li…

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Project Hail Mary is the movie of the year. Book it. scriptshadow.net/movie-revie…

Movie Review – Project Hail Mary

Is Project Hail Mary the Best Studio Movie of the Century? Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: With all the stars in the galaxy dying, a middle school science teacher with a wild theory about life is sent on a …

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Pitch me your screenplay by Sunday. Get a script review on Monday! - scriptshadow.net/pitch-me-yo…

PITCH ME YOUR SCREENPLAY!

Best pitch gets a script review next week! While I’m tempted to spend 1500 words chastising Jon Favreau and Disney for spending 10 million dollars on the most poorly produced trailer in the history…

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The Zach Cregger tree leads to a big positive script review on Scriptshadow! - scriptshadow.net/screenplay-…

Screenplay Review – Cut Outs

Seven meets Weapons meets Pluribus? Genre: Serial Killer/Sci-Fi Premise: An LA detective begins to suspect that a series of murders and suicides is tied to a group that’s figured out how to j…

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Do you prefer to write slower-moving screenplays? Are you sick of the industry telling you to speed things up? I got you! scriptshadow.net/how-to-writ…

HOW TO WRITE A SLOW-MOVING SCREENPLAY AND MAKE IT GOOD!

Writing a slow script that’s actually good is hard. So thank God Scriptshadow is going to show you how to do it, once and for all! A few weeks ago I reviewed a movie (or was it a script?) tha…

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Is Filoni announcing Star Wars Episodes 10, 11, and 12 soon? scriptshadow.net/the-emperor…

THE EMPEROR IS DEAD – KATHLEEN KENNEDY IS TOSSED INTO THE SARLACC PIT

The other day I came across a tweet that said something to the effect of: “It’s crazy that a new Star Wars movie comes out in four months and nobody knows about it.” One of the first replies to tha…

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Why would anybody - and I mean ANYBODY - make their lives miserable and write a script on "hard mode??" - scriptshadow.net/screenwriti…

SCREENWRITING MUSINGS – THE MIND-NUMBING DECISION BY SCREENWRITERS TO WRITE ON ‘HARD MODE’

I’m giving 25% off two screenplay consultations to the FIRST TWO WRITERS WHO E-MAIL ME. So e-mail me at carsonreeves1@gmail.com if you want one of these deals! I watched a couple of things this pas…

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I review the number 1 script on the 2025 Black List! scriptshadow.net/screenplay-…

Screenplay Review – Best Seller

Time to review the 2025 Black List’s best script! Genre: Drama Premise: (from Black List) In New York’s literary scene, a struggling writer, pressured by her famous novelist husband to have a baby,…

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The final Scriptshadow Newsletter of the year is in your inbox. I review a new script from the screenwriter of one of my favorite scripts ever! - scriptshadow.net/the-final-n…

The Final Newsletter of the Year is In Your Inbox

Or will be in the next 60 minutes Talk about an early Christmas present! But I feel less like the kid and more like the parent agonizingly wrapping six thousand oddly shaped gifts.  That’s be…

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Today I review a RARE "[x] impressive" screenplay. It includes a download link to the script. Exceptional character work! scriptshadow.net/screenplay-…

Screenplay Review – Turpentine

Carson hacks the Black List to find the best scripts! Genre: Drama/Thriller Premise: When a deadbeat son hires his friends to rob his own mother and father in order to pay an outstanding debt to a …

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5 horror scenes from your peers. Come vote for your favorite! scriptshadow.net/blood-ink-t…

BLOOD & INK “THAT SCENE” SHOWDOWN!

Read the five scenes. Vote on your favorite one. Winner gets a review! Okay, guys. Sorry for the delay on getting this up. But I promise you it’s for a good reason. I’m not going to get into the de…

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Anybody have Taylor Sheridan's Capture the Flag script, the project that, supposedly, destroyed his Paramount relationship and led to him moving to Universal? If so, send it to me. I want to review it: carsonreeves1@gmail.com
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How is it that literally every single person who has ever worked at SNL has talked about how unenjoyable it is? deadline.com/2025/10/heidi-g…

Heidi Gardner & Ego Nwodim Call ‘SNL’ A “Challenging Place” & Get Emotional Recalling Their Time On...

Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim exited Saturday Night Live ahead of the Season 51 premiere on NBC.

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A House of Dynamite. WHAT WAS THIS SCREENPLAY??? scriptshadow.net/movie-revie…

Movie Review – A House of Dynamite

Genre: Thriller Premise: Told in real-time from three different perspectives, the United States Defense Department tries to stop a mysterious nuclear missile launch heading towards Chicago (why you…

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Next Halloween Friday, we're having a Scene Showdown for the 100 writers in the Blood & Ink Screenplay Contest. If you've been struggling with your scene writing, here are four good movie scenes from 2025 and what makes them work. scriptshadow.net/blood-and-i…

Blood And Ink Scene Showdown is Next Week!

Here are some scene breakdowns to get you motivated! Next weekend, aka Halloween Friday, we’re scheduled to have a showdown for the 97 participants in the Blood & Ink Horror Script Showdo…

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Are you a screenwriter frustrated that everyone else seems to be finding success but you? I got something to make you feel better. :) scriptshadow.net/kill-the-ye…

Kill the “Yeah But” Screenwriter Within You

A couple of weeks ago, I did an interview with screenwriter William Mager, who created the show, “Reunion.” William detailed his pursuit of becoming a produced writer, which involved working in var…

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Scriptshadow goes all googly-eyed for this recent spec screenplay sale! - scriptshadow.net/screenplay-…

Screenplay Review – Crush

Big spec sale from last week! Genre: Contained Thriller Premise: After her father’s death, a young alcoholic woman ventures into the Everglades to get clean, only to find herself trapped in t…

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I am having an extremely hard time believing that anybody actually liked One Battle After Another scriptshadow.net/movie-revie…

Movie Review – One Battle After Another

The most ambitious movie of Paul Thomas Anderson’s career Genre: Drama/Thriller Premise: A former revolutionary who gets high all day must spring back into action when his teenage daughter is…

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