Skin's first "written by" film credit.

Lighthouse Lane, a psychological horror flick. Set to debut at the Int'l Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival this October.

Congratulations!

Congrats, Danny!

Seriously?? You the primary writer, or just an assistant? You write the whole thing?

Wait, it's not a porno...?

Yes, seriously. Primary. Whole thing. No, not porn. Now, granted, it ain't huge -- think 'Evil Dead' budget and production values -- but it's something. It's the first one.

Wow.
Was it plagiarized just like your username?

Maybe he just turned in the Evil Dead script.

Wow.
No.

And Skin would add one other thought, but this isn't the Red Room.

Clearly you're a creatively bankrupt person.
You can't even come up with your own online persona.
I'm curious as to what kind of writing you could possible produce.
Perhaps you found a script online, changed the names, and told yourself it was original?

Skin didn't realize trolling was allowed in the Workshop.

Trolling is NOT allowed in the Workshop and Para is about to get warned if he doesn't back off.

If the credits don't say "based on characters from the website Wordforge" you'll be hearing from Lanzman's lawyers.

Someone needs to edumacate himself about the script-writing process, WGA regulations, etc.

Congrats, "skin"! Might be a good idea to give IMdB a poke, though, 'cause they don't have it listed even as "in production." Sometimes they get really backlogged.

Well, it's just about as indie as indie gets, so Skin's not the least bit surprised that IMDb has nothing on it. Skin will have to give the brothers a call and see if either of them has even bothered to nudge IMDb about it.

Some of that education on scriptwriting, though, and why plagiarizing a script from the internetz is a bad idea (aside from the very obvious):

Typically, by the time a produced script makes it to the internet, it's a shooting script. Shooting script = the original screenwriter's material plus camera direction and where necessary Directors' notes to him/herself on voice inflection, facial expression, etc. for the actors. So where Skin would write:

Joe Bob
Your sister smells like motor oil!

Skin and the Director would get together and Skin would clarify the way the vocal and facial subtext that should go into the delivery of the line:

Joe Bob
(longingly)
Your sister smells like motor oil!

So it should come as a surprise to nobody that nobody wants to see an unsold shooting script. Which is why it'd be monumentally stupid to try to sell a shooting script you found online, and that's about the *only* kind of script you find online, other than for television show transcripts, which are not only well known, but by and large clumsily done.

Oh, but wait.
Just ran a google,
Lighthouse Lane is used.
http://www.amazon.com/Tides-Hope-Lighthouse-Lane-Book/dp/0373875290


Horror hidden in quiet serene!!!

Devious!

And that's not a troll, it a funneh.

Hey, Skin didn't name the project, he just wrote the script. Anyway, yeah, pretty much any title you can think of is bound to have been used somewhere before. That's gotta be some version of Rule 34.

you know, if people are still wondering who you are after this thread, they deserve a Red Room Treatment.


Congrats on the sold script.
Tell me, how did it happen?

One of Skin's customers for other writing work took a look at that old OLD script Skin did waaaaay back in 2007, then mentioned that he and his brother were wanting to do a film. They had a vague idea of what kind of story they wanted, and hired Skin to pen the script for it. It was originally going to be a ghostwriting scenario, but they couldn't pony up the dough for that, so it was for a lesser amount of cash plus "written by" credit and residuals (if any.)

Not that anybody should get too excited. They've shopped it out to a film festival, and as far as Skin knows, that's as much as they've done with it at this time. Depending on how it's received at its showing there, though, it may turn into something bigger.

So Skin's now seen a near-final version of the film. Looks like they ad-libbed in a few spots, but not too badly. Still... not quite as good, in Skin's opinion, as what was in the script. Overall, though, not bad. Not bad at all. Definitely not your conventional horror flick, though, inasmuch as the horror is as much inflicted on the homicidal maniac as on the victims. As far as the character of the killer goes... think River Tam without the genius and without the heroic resolution to the character arc.

Any hooters in it?

Not that Skin saw when he watched the early screener. And since early screeners usually end up getting stuff cut instead of getting stuff added, probably won't be any in the final version.

If you are going to the trouble of writing a script, the least you could do was include boob shots.

:boobs:

See?

A friend of ours has a featured role in The Last Excorcist. She sent us a pic of her being hugged by Quentin Tarantino.

Skin's First Screenplay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SLsA_Opybw

UMNO.

Parallaxis still doesn't know who skin is, you would think all the porn references would have made it obvious? It's obvious to me and I have been merely a background lurker for years until recently and I figured it out.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1733561/

Yup, that'd be the one. Although Skin thinks imDB is almost certainly off a bit -- Skin doesn't remember any work in Australia.