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Bulletproof: Writing Scripts that Don't Get Shot Down
The team of Diamond and Weissman have been writing movies and mentoring filmmakers for decades. In this practical guide, they take the aspiring writer by the hand and guide them through the logistics and tools of writing an attention-grabbing, audience-pleasing screenplay. Readers will learn the interests and needs of managers, agents, producers, executives, financiers, directors, and actors. Diamond and Weissman attribute their phenomenal success to a career-long focus on the motives and priorities of film sponsors and benefactors. Whether it’s a theatrical release or a streaming movie, a major, big-budget tent pole or an intimate, character-driven indie drama, Diamond and Weissman apply their time-tested approach. This fresh way of thinking will resonate with writers, industry professionals, and cinephiles excited to peek under the hood at what makes their favorite films tick. Bulletproof is the rare screenwriting instructional penned by authors with both massive credits and decades of business experience. It is poised to take its place as one of the must-reads of the genre.
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Bulletproof: Writing Scripts that Don't Get Shot Down
The team of Diamond and Weissman have been writing movies and mentoring filmmakers for decades. In this practical guide, they take the aspiring writer by the hand and guide them through the logistics and tools of writing an attention-grabbing, audience-pleasing screenplay. Readers will learn the interests and needs of managers, agents, producers, executives, financiers, directors, and actors. Diamond and Weissman attribute their phenomenal success to a career-long focus on the motives and priorities of film sponsors and benefactors. Whether it’s a theatrical release or a streaming movie, a major, big-budget tent pole or an intimate, character-driven indie drama, Diamond and Weissman apply their time-tested approach. This fresh way of thinking will resonate with writers, industry professionals, and cinephiles excited to peek under the hood at what makes their favorite films tick. Bulletproof is the rare screenwriting instructional penned by authors with both massive credits and decades of business experience. It is poised to take its place as one of the must-reads of the genre.
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Bulletproof: Writing Scripts that Don't Get Shot Down

Bulletproof: Writing Scripts that Don't Get Shot Down

Bulletproof: Writing Scripts that Don't Get Shot Down

Bulletproof: Writing Scripts that Don't Get Shot Down

Overview

The team of Diamond and Weissman have been writing movies and mentoring filmmakers for decades. In this practical guide, they take the aspiring writer by the hand and guide them through the logistics and tools of writing an attention-grabbing, audience-pleasing screenplay. Readers will learn the interests and needs of managers, agents, producers, executives, financiers, directors, and actors. Diamond and Weissman attribute their phenomenal success to a career-long focus on the motives and priorities of film sponsors and benefactors. Whether it’s a theatrical release or a streaming movie, a major, big-budget tent pole or an intimate, character-driven indie drama, Diamond and Weissman apply their time-tested approach. This fresh way of thinking will resonate with writers, industry professionals, and cinephiles excited to peek under the hood at what makes their favorite films tick. Bulletproof is the rare screenwriting instructional penned by authors with both massive credits and decades of business experience. It is poised to take its place as one of the must-reads of the genre.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781615932993
Publisher: Wiese, Michael Productions
Publication date: 05/01/2019
Pages: 180
Sales rank: 695,548
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

David Diamond and David Weissman’s partnership is rooted in a 30-year friendship dating to their high school days in Philadelphia. The partners sold their first spec script, The Whiz Kid, to 20th Century Fox in 1994. They followed with a series of original ideas for comedies, including their first produced credit in 2000, Universal Pictures’ The Family Man starring Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni.

Diamond and Weissman next wrote the DreamWorks Pictures sci-fi comedy Evolution, directed and co-produced by Ivan Reitman. In 2005, the team partnered with Wedding Crashers producer Andrew Panay on a series of feature comedies that yielded five consecutive pitch sales and two additional produced credits: the 2009 farce Old Dogs (starring John Travolta and Robin Williams) and the 2010 romantic comedy When In Rome (starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel). 2005 also marked the sale of their first television pitch to 20th Television and CBS; the resulting pilot starred John Leguizamo and Claire Forlani. More pilot sales at NBC, ABC, FOX, and TBS, for both half-hour comedies and one-hour dramas, followed. Together, Diamond and Weissman have conceived and contributed to over a dozen movies yielding a combined box office gross of over a billion dollars worldwide.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface: How We Came to Write This Book Introduction: What Is the “Bulletproof Approach,” and Why Is It So Important? Chapter One: The Bulletproof Movie Idea The Difference Between an Idea for a Movie and an Idea for a Screenplay * Anatomy of a Movie Idea: The Three C’s * Vetting Your Idea * The Logline * Finding Your Idea’s Place in the Landscape: Studio vs. Indie Ideas Chapter Two: Finding Bulletproof Models Taking Your Place at the Table * Watching With a Discerning Eye * Finding Inspiration in Those Who’ve Come Before Chapter Three: The Bulletproof “One-Pager” A Basic Grasp of Story Structure * What Your Movie’s About vs. What Your Movie’s Really About * How Your Story Will Play Out * The Story of Your Movie on One Page Chapter Four: Building Bulletproof Characters The Tested Lead * The Likable Lead * The Castable Lead * The Chart Chapter Five: Building the Bulletproof Outline The Meld * Connective Tissue * Subplots: B Stories, C Stories, and “Runners” * The Outline * Outline, Treatment, or Pitch Document Chapter Six: The Bulletproof Set Piece What’s a Set Piece? * Building Your Set Pieces Chapter Seven: Writing the Bulletproof Screenplay The Opening * The Nuts and Bolts * Sluglines * Character Description * Action * Dialogue * Transitions and Segues * It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint * One Last Thing . . . Chapter Eight: The Bulletproof Rewrite Delivering on Your Promise . . . and Your Premise * Delivering on Your Characters * The Cut Pass: Pacing and Page Count Chapter Nine: The Bulletproof Submission Penetrating the Barriers to Entry * They Like It, Now What . . .—* Be Strong and of Good Courage Acknowledgments Glossary of Terms Appendix: Chapter Summaries and Suggested Exercises
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