PLOT: Dan O’Bannon, writer of such seminal screenplays as that for ALIEN, TOTAL RECALL, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD and many others, uses his experience to lay out a workbook guide on how to create a ...

CLICK HERE TO ORDER THE BOOK PLOT: Dan O’Bannon, writer of such seminal screenplays as that for ALIEN, TOTAL RECALL, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD and many others, uses his experience to lay out a ...

When you watch a lot of film and television, you begin to sense a pattern. In the beginning, you meet characters. In the middle, you see them struggle. At the end, you watch as they succeed or fail.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was considering the possibility that there might be more to screen drama than external conflict-driven plotting when, as if hit by a thunderbolt, a new paradigm of ...

Poor old three-act structure. It gets hammered away at, like an old punching bag, every time someone wants to challenge the primacy of the formulaic Hollywood screenwriting methods. “Take that! You ...