Chris Hill

Check out our #screenwriting podcast where we interview #writers who have made @theblcklst - now available on: Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bla… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0F7kKqVzN… YouTube: @blacklisted-pod?si=-dHXY49uEQLmW7w2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@blacklisted-p… #storytelling #WritingCommunity #screenwriter

@MatthewRhys is quickly becoming 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 new @AnthonyHopkins with his parade of psychopaths to challenge Lecter… @netflix @AppleTV #widowsbay #thebeastinme

@HwoodScrptReadr I think Travis is just fine, his movie got made.

Everyone is dunking on this movie and here's why. Sure, "a rom-com version of THE PURGE" sounds like a decent pitch. But "a world where premarital sex is outlawed except for one night every year" suggests some kind of evangelical Christian dystopia a la THE HANDMAID'S TALE – not NYC in the 2020s. It also raises the obvious question: why can't they just get married and fuck? Boom – problem solved. The idea is to put your protagonists in a situation they can't get out of with real consequences if they don't. Maybe the movie turns out to be great. My point is that you need to make your logline bulletproof – and this one is full of holes. Take the 2011 movie IN TIME which imagines a world where time is currency. Everybody has some kind of device on their wrists that measures how long they have to live and I'm bored just explaining it. It requires too much setup. Even then, we don't quite get it. Now compare that to one of Andrew Niccol's earlier films, 1997's GATTACA. Here we have a world where the wealthy can have designer babies who are considered genetically superior to everyone else and consequently they get the best jobs. I get that. It's weirdly plausible – even more so now than when it was written. What these films have in common is an imagined future, but one is a sci-fi classic and the other was instantly forgotten. In GATTACA, we can see how we can end up in a society like that because it's an extrapolation from where we are now. And everything in the film reflects this down to its overall look and vibe. In ONE NIGHT ONLY, the writer had a vague idea and just kinda stopped there. You want to make sure that your concept does not involve too many "steps." We should have a clear sense of how the plot naturally flows from your premise. And it's this feeling of anticipation that makes for a great logline. We're already thinking where the story can go. Most scripts fail at the conceptual level. But it's not always easy to see what's worth writing and what isn't. You can save yourself a lot of time and effort by stress-testing your concept before you fall in love with it. Because if you don't, you're just going to get your heart broken later on.

@FLOTUS Epstein-ordered bride 👰

Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough.  It is time for ABC to take a stand.  How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.

@FLOTUS Sit down

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Right before Trump is rushed off stage… a man holds up a card 👀 One second later, Melania reacts with an expression of horror on her face 😳 He is a “mentalist” named Oz Pearlman who was performing. I believe we just witnessed something much darker than we want to realize…

@franklinleonard Can’t believe my mum was at this game! lol 😂

I love football so very very much.

In this podcast, screenwriter Ian Shorr confirms naming of Paramount Primal. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how…

Great screenplays never die. #BlackList2006

@theyoungilkim @unikunka Aren’t we all! I think you’d be great! 😊

@chrishillwrites @unikunka The project is 99% dead. It's launched my career and has been a perpetual writing sample. But I don't like doing interviews. Mostly because I'm very insecure. Thanks for thinking I'm pod-worthy though!

Hot Take — you get better reads on paper scripts. 1. Scrolling on an iPad is a passive action which leads to passive reading. 2. Feeling where you are in a script based on the pages immerses your reader in the movie. 3. Reading on paper separates you from your phone/work.

@theyoungilkim @unikunka Can I tempt you to come on the podcast to talk about RODHAM? 😬

@unikunka Also, 120 million sheets of paper is probably $4-5 million in savings at most? I agree that reading a hardcopy script creates an experience that an e-copy cannot do.

@unikunka Red pen and paper is the only way to do notes - especially on your own work where you’re trying to trick your brain that you didn’t write this thing. Staring at the same document you’ve been wrestling with onscreen leads to lethargy and missed insight…

Hard to see this as a happy ending even it's framed that way. Seems pretty grim to me but I do hope he's happier now. It all comes down to supply and demand. Too many writers, not enough jobs

@ChristFaulk @NoahGarfinkel @MTGraveStudio Where’s the coffee? ☕️

@NoahGarfinkel @MTGraveStudio Try a library

There are like 9 different losers at this coffee shop with their Apple laptops open, working on their dumb little scripts. I, however, am cool and working on a good one.

For anyone interested, I sat down with Chris Hill to talk Carry On and screenwriting on his podcast, #Blacklisted, and I had a lot of fun. Thanks to Chris for having me on! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bla…

What does it take to write one of the most-watched original films on @Netflix globally? Find out in our latest episode with @TJFixman - 🔗 👇 #screenwiting podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bla…

An excellent quote from Steven Sorderbergh in Slate: "The hardest thing in the world is to be good and clear, because sometimes in order to be clear, you become obvious. And when you’re obvious, you’re not good. So that is a lifelong sort of process, figuring out on each project, given its intentions and its demands, how to make it good and clear. Being obscure is easy. It’s easy to make something that is elliptical and sort of difficult to grasp and sort of fob it off on being artistic, and if you don’t understand it, that’s your problem." Anyone writing genre deals with this every day-- especially if it's trying to be more. Very well put.

New episode dropped today with @Vervetla agent and partner @DBoxerbaum 🎇 🎉 #screenwriting podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bla…

@TJFixman Wow… 😮

Bummed to hear this. Love the folks over at Bad Robot and they had the coolest lobby in the industry. End of an era for sure. #comments" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">deadline.com/2026/04/j-j-ab…