CHAOS isn't your grandmother's zombie movie. In fact, they're not really zombies. Well, in the traditional sense. Check out our proof of concept teaser trailer for CHAOS, a feature-length horror film going into production later this year. Directed by Tony Oliver and written by Benjamin J. Gohs. https://youtu.be/GrW6et9i9C0

You won't be shocked to learn that writers have always been undervalued. Maybe it's because nearly everyone does write ... to a certain extent. In the age of the social media post, we're just 8 Billion pseudo scribes thumb-blasting our way from respectable obscurity to digital court-jesterdom. To quote my favorite no-collar Poet Charles Bukowski … Continue reading How the improv myth hurts screenwriters

Let me start by saying that—as of this date—there's no film project starring Bill Nighy as Bill Nighy. At least, not that I know of. There is only the hope of one. Dangers inherent in writing spec scripts is that you've wasted great gobs of time on material that will never get produced ... let … Continue reading Movie featuring Bill Nighy as Bill Nighy … and Bill Nighy?

Hoping to better endure the Jack Torrancian [any Shining fans out there?] hellscape that is March in Michigan—and soothe the compulsive querying of my mad monkey brain as to whether the groundhog’s prognostication of slightly less winter will endure—the wife and I are currently reading, for our own little private book club, Robert M. Pirsig’s … Continue reading Zen and the art of coincidental correlation

LINK TO SCRIPT BELOW "Never-ever-ever write a screenplay adapted from intellectual property to which you do NOT own the rights!!!" It's the very fist admonition of screenwriting gurus to yon hopeful peons when discussing the many spiky pitfalls of penciling a biopic for the big screen. Did I mention I'm terrible at doing what I'm … Continue reading Screenplay for Ernest Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast” [spec script]