Note: My scores were probably not high enough to make the finals, but I still feel like I got a fair shake and I agree with the reviews for the most part:

Dear BlueCat entrant,

Here are your analyses on your submission to the BlueCat Fellini Awards. I very much appreciate your entry to this special competition, and I hope you will find your experience enjoyable and helpful.

Below you will find two analyses and sets of scores. This is the first time we’ve provided two feedbacks, and we look forward to seeing how this goes. The scores are based on a 1-10 scale, with 10 being the highest. Be sure to check the math on the total provided by your reader. Thank you.

Both analyses will be taken into account moving forward, but what should be made clear is you will only need the score on one of the analyses to advance you in the competition (in other words, you have two chances). I have not yet determined what the score total will be the cutoff point, but essentially every BlueCat entrant receives two chances to advance. I will let everyone know what the score cutoff total will be when I make that determination.

Please let us know if you have any comments or concerns on the analyses you received. We are not a consultation service. We are a screenplay competition and what we are providing are the notes we generated in service of judging that competition.

If you’d like to resubmit your screenplay, you may do so for $40. You will receive one analysis, given by a reader you’ve had or a new one. All scores received will be taken into account equally. Deadline for resubmission is April 1.

To resubmit, please visit http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/main/fellini_resubmission.php.

Thank you again for supporting BlueCat. It’s been of great benefit to me to do this work, and I sincerely hope you will all find something you can take from this experience to move your writing forward. I have.

Sincerely,

Gordy Hoffman

The BlueCat Fellini Awards
www.bluecatscreenplay.com

Archive # 571 Crossroads
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In my efforts to self-promote I figure this can’t hurt!

Mike McLarty- Screenwriter Facebook Page

Put two of my favorite scripts into BlueCat. I plan on entering all three of my finished scripts into at least three contests this year if I can afford it.

I’ll update here for anyone reading.

On page 81 of my latest script,

The Duckling

. Enjoying the hell out of writing it.

Logline: A man kidnaps his son when the boy’s mother insists on treating the boy’s autism-like disease with a procedure that will erase the child’s mind. (Drama/Action)

I’m picturing two of my favorite actors in the lead roles: Walton Goggins as the father and Forest Whitaker as the police Detective trying to catch him.

A short, silly script. When a porno star is murdered, part of him RISES for some HARD vengeance. Read it here:

http://www.mikeswritings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MEAT.pdf

CROSSROADS, my new post-apocalypse script, has been finished and is being reviewed by my trusty first readers. Will wait a while to post the script (e-mail me if you want a review copy), but I’ll throw out a potential logline for now:

Sharky is a trader with a dark past. Lucia has heard of a boat that can take her and her children back to England. On the run from murderous cannibals, they’ll travel across the devastated ruins of America searching for redemption and a better life. Neither of them, though, will be prepared for what awaits them at the CROSSROADS.

I love the post-apoc genre. Always have. I remember watching THE DAY AFTER on TV, I fell in love with VIRUS (1981) in grade school and still consider it one of the best in the genre. I’m still hoping for a final MAD MAX movie. One of my favorite books is “THE STAND”. It goes on and on…

What I tried to do with CROSSROADS is create the type of film I would enjoy watching. While I have a literary boner for THE ROAD (both the book and movie), I didn’t want to get that dark. The world of CROSSROADS is certainly a dangerous, malevolent entity, of that you can be sure. But I wanted some humor, some over-the-top fights, and clear delineation between the forces of ‘good’ and ‘evil’. I wanted a hero that you can root for, and that ultimately saves the day.

I think I succeeded.

Of possible interest:

When writing, I almost always have an actor or actress in mind for the major roles. I don’t always consciously choose who that person will be, the image just forms. In this case, I was envisioning TRUE BLOOD star Sam Trammel (‘Sam Merlotte’) in the role of Sharky. For Gus, I again wrote a role for Tony Cox. I am bound and determined to work with Mr. Cox someday, and those of you who read my horror-comedy LA PETITE MORT will recognize this Gus as one in the same with that Gus (well, in LPM he’s a cook, here he’s a trader/mechanic).

I suppose that’s all I have to rap at ya about for now. I enjoyed the hell out of writing CROSSROADS and hope it gets exposed to a wider audience. For those of you who do read it, I would love to know who you were thinking of in the role of Lucia. Of course my dream would be for it to go to Amanda Seyfried or Natalie Portman!

…Mike

Quite an honor!

Link: http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2010/08/amateur-friday-la-petite-mort.html#disqus_thread

Wish I had sent him the updated script! If you wish, you can read it here:

Link: http://www.mikeswritings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LA-PETITE-MORT1.pdf

Genre: Drama/Crime

Logline: A dying man (OLD MR. CAMPBELL) confesses to a murder he committed half a century earlier. Was it truly murder, though, or an act of survival?

Length: 103 Pages

Rated: R. Violence, Profanity

To request the full script or a brief synopsis please email me at michael.g.mclarty@gmail.com

To read the full script click here: http://www.mikeswritings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/PUSH1.pdf

Genre: Horror/Comedy

Logline: An alcoholic stilt walker (MORT) must save the town that loathes him from an invasion of zombie midgets.

Length: 93 Pages

Rated: R. Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations

To request the full script or a brief synopsis please email me at michael.g.mclarty@gmail.com

Genre: Horror.

Logline: A young man talks with a therapist about his dark urges.

Length: 5 pages.

A screenplay I wrote for Kenny Pedersen, based on an original screenplay by Kenny Pedersen. Kenny asked me to give the script he was working with for a local contest a look over. While my version didn’t make the cut, I was proud of what I wrote so decided to share it.

The screenplay is only 5 pages. Kenny only had 48 hours to make a film. I think what he came out with is pretty good!

My Screenplay is here: http://www.mikeswritings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/GEORGE.pdf

Kenny’s Movie is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQatioH6M5o