We turned five scripts from the 2018 Black List into comics.
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And the Best Picture nomineesNebraskaandThe Revenanttook eight years to move from script to screen.
Any years most-acclaimed movies usually started as glimmers in a writers eye between two and ten years earlier.
Those perfect Trump-era takes?
They were probably written during the Obama era.
One theme, though, announces itself louder than any other (no, not that one).
But one Trump-adjacent plotline how did [assholes name here] ever get so much power?
is pervasive.Frat Boy Geniusis about Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel.
Race, however, proved an irresistible subject.
The overall theme is one of intense melancholy.
A couple of categories are Black List perennials: The killer high-concept sell will never go out of style.
In this case, literally: Lionsgate is putting up the money.
Working closely with his best friends, he gets the product, first called Picaboo, off the ground.
Nobody seems interested, though, until he markets it to teenagers and changes its name to Snapchat.
They fucking hate each other.
Then they accidentally fall in love.
The Plot: Lights up on a postapocalyptic hellscape in what was once Atlanta.
The trouble is, her father, J.P., is not dead.
Which means asking her father if hell pretend to be dead.
Needless to say, hes shocked.
With an assist from Gina, Frankie finally persuades her dad to fake his own death.
Inspired by the life and art of M.C.
The Plot: The story follows 46-year-old M. C. Escher in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in 1944.
*Loglines courtesy of the screenwriters.
