Stage 32 Screenwriting Lab: Write Your Franchise Launching Feature Film Script In 8 Weeks

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Write your high concept franchise-launching feature film screenplay in 8 weeks with the writer behind the SHARKNADO franchise!

PLUS! You will be connected with your instructor via email for the duration of the lab.

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“High Concept” movies - movies that launch the franchises the industry is built on - have been a mainstay of the feature film business for decades. From ALIEN to GHOSTBUSTERS to SNAKES ON A PLANE to SHARKNADO, if you’ve been to the movies in the past fifty years, the odds are good that you’ve seen a lot of high concept films that dream of launching a franchise. 

High concept stories are those where the premise can be easily pitched in once sentence and that premise is simple and instantly appealing. Ideally, the concept is obviously conveyed by the title alone. “Snakes On A Plane” tells you everything you need to know about that film, and makes a significant portion of the audience want to see it. The famous “Schwarzenegger. DeVito. Twins.” pitch is the kind of thing to make a movie studio drool.

But there’s more to a high concept movie than simply the title and pitch. Your easily understandable idea then has to be translated into a screenplay that will hold an audience’s attention for two hours, with characters that the audience can get emotionally invested in and that you may want to reinvest in for years to come. 

In this exclusive Stage 32 8-session lab, you will write and workshop your high concept franchise launching feature or made-for-TV movie script of your own to take out to the marketplace.

Mentoring you while you are writing your high concept script is accomplished screenwriter Thunder Levin. Thunder is best known as the writer behind the Syfy Channel’s cult hit franchise, SHARKNADO (he's credited on all 6 Sharknado films). He’s also written such high concept movies as ZOMBIE TIDALWAVE and MUTANT VAMPIRE ZOMBIES FROM THE ‘HOOD!, as well as directing the latter. He’s pitched to all major studios and independent production companies and has over a dozen produced writing credits while also directed a handful of feature films.

Over eight weeks of lectures, workshop sessions, and one-on-one meetings with Thunder, you’ll cover the crucial elements you need when crafting a high concept movie from the all-important logline to finished script, including developing plot structure and engaging characters to keep producers, directors, execs, and audiences entertained not just by the idea, but the execution.

By the end of this lab, you’ll have a finished script in hand to add to your writing portfolio, and a handle on how to pitch the holy grail of movie development. You’ll also learn how Syfy Channel movies and similar films are developed and structured from pitch to treatment to outline to script to shooting script, and how the made-for-TV movie eight act script structure works. Additionally, through workshopping sessions and one-on-one meetings with Thunder, you’ll learn how to constructively evaluate another’s writing, give notes to elevate the work of your peers, and get crucial feedback in an encouraging setting to take your own skillset to the next level.

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to work with the writer behind one of the biggest original franchises of the past decade and walk away with your finished "high concept" feature script in hand.