FrankenScript :: Lee Gabel's Screenwriting Journal/Blog

Today I begin a new script. I’ve written horror and drama genre scripts successfully so far, so this time I’m going to attempt a comedy. I have heard that the comedy genre is one of most difficult film genres to do well and that scares the shit out of me. Am I funny? Will others [...]

Other than this story centering on Hasidic Jews, there’s not much else that makes this film different than any other drug smuggling story. And the Jewish focus lacks the ability to make this film different enough. It interesting that this was based on a true story, but the viewer isn’t going to care if the [...]