Danny Manus
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Danny Manus
@DannyManus
No BullScript Consulting guy, Mentor, Screenwriter, Former Development Exec, Speaker, Pan Queer Bear 🏳️🌈, Reality TV Addict, Cat Dad & Smart-Ass!





all of these things coming from dakota's camp is extremely and embarassingly shameless

🚨 Exclusive: ABC and Warner Bros. Discovery are in meltdown, as a tidal wave of ripple effects from the cancellation of "The Bachelorette" is already being realized. Read more: tmz.me/41ZIWZQ


JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.

BREAKING: Meta is shutting down the Metaverse after spending $80 Billion on the project

still think anybody new-ish to TV writing should study procedurals/network dramas. even if they’re not what you’re setting out to write. structure, pacing, writing to and out of act breaks, stakes and how to escalate them, etc etc etc those shows are SO good at that stuff.

When I was working on Sideways (which was adapted from a book), I asked the director, Alexander if the book were any good. "No it sucks. You don't adapt great books. You adapt shitty books that have an interesting premise, or a kernel of something that you can exploit and improve. Good books don't make good movies. You have to build a screenplay from the ground up. And nobody is gonna be mad at me for changing the details of a Rex Pickett novel. But God help you if you try to change 2 words in the Lord of the Rings." Brilliant dude.


EXCLUSIVE: Inside Chloé Zhao’s failed "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" reboot: - Sarah Michelle Gellar’s return was shockingly minimal, with Buffy reduced to just one line in the pilot as the story centered on a new teen Slayer. - Sources say the project, which Zhao directed, was viewed as not mainstream enough and skewing too young, while Gellar has since blamed a Hulu executive who “was proud” he never watched the original series. - After multiple rewrites, the revival was ultimately deemed “unsalvageable” and scrapped. variety.com/2026/tv/news/b…

They're busy writing the book version of their already-written screenplay so that they can get a publishing deal in order to pitch IP to adapt. 🙄



You just got off a 16 hour overnight shift and come home to Steak Pasta. What do you do?🤔


Hudson Williams and his girlfriend via neoncomplex #Oscars




