Screenwriting

I haven't written a comedy film yet, but I'm already touching on many themes. I write first, the themes come later. One day I'll focus on comedy, naturally, when the time comes. And in life, if we stop laughing, we stop living...

Thanks so much Maria Restivo Glassner, then hopefully I'll be able to get it out there one day :D

That's a great way to see it, Koby Nguyen, and you're 100% right, the death of laughter is the death of life.

It sounds so cool, and you’ve put great effort into it—I can’t wait to see it.

As for me, I’ve never written comedy. My students already overwhelm my mind, so I relieve my stress by creating dark worlds haha.

Comedy is the hardest genre for me to write, Banafsheh Esmailzadeh. I've gotten a lot better at it though. I like to put characters in awkward or embarrassing situations and let the comedy come from them.

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Congratulations on finishing the first draft! Stage 32 has feedback services I suggest checking out (www.stage32.com/scriptservices).

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I think they are very good!

Merry Christmas! :)

Thank you!

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I'm gonna check out your loglines and leave some feedback.

Happy Holidays, Elle Bolan! Hope you and your family enjoy the holidays! Have an incredible new year!

Happy Holidays to you as well.

Same to you Elle Bolan !!!! Happy Holidays!

Thank you, may everyone be happy!

Thank you very much for your warm words and wishes.

May your year bring love, happiness, and the success you dream of as well.

Happy New Year to all of us. I truly believe 2026 is going to be our best year yet.

Great job, Alex! Do you enjoy working on sci-fi more than other genres?

Two NEW scripts, good stuff. Congrats on the placements and read requests.

My 2025 was one new script and one page 1 rewrite.

Happy Holidays! And onward!

Couldn't agree more with the level of support and feedback available to all on this amazing platform and congrats on all you've achieved this year Alex Gutenberg .

That's inspiring. Great work!

Marat Shad I am not sure it is really about the genre. On one hand, sci-fi offers more freedom to build your own worlds and lore. On the other, that is not the goal in itself — I am more drawn to stories that feel dense, grounded, and visceral.

Xyphalavino Muthii I have a question about originality. The theme of a person bonded with artificial intelligence and gaining superpowers appears in other projects — there are many films and series about AI and enhanced humans — but the exact combination of nano-AI + super speed + a military organization does not seem completely standard; the elements are familiar, but the combination could feel fresh.

Whether studios and audiences need another super-speed hero after the X-Men films, and how character rights are protected, I don’t know. What is important is to write unique plot twists and sincere emotional character arcs that resonate in the era of metamodernism.

If I were you, I would research the superhero movie market from 2019 to 2025 — do these films still perform at the box office today, and what do experts forecast regarding any revival of the genre. In my opinion, even James Gunn hasn’t saved Superman yet — although films like The Suicide Squad (2021) and the Peacemaker series seem interesting. But that is my personal view; the real question is what the numbers say.

Antony Voronov Elle Bolan I get it and i know all stories have been told but what makes a character special isn't whether he existed or not but it's how you tell the same story in a very different way.Like for example if you look at action movies, you'll find them having something in common like the protagonist having to diffuse a bomb in the last minutes,so many movies have this but whenever you watch these movies it feels new because it's a new a character having the same story but now told in a different way. So coming back to my character PULSE,i did my research on other existing speedster and made sure i gave him a very different story than the ones before making it a new story even though the idea of speedsters already existed.

I get all of that too.

My comment was actually positive. These types of stories have seen repeated success through 50+ years. A fresh, timely version of a similar story is a good thing. Not much is unique, we make it unique in delivery.

Which I believe your project does quite well.

Xyphalavino Muthii You seem defensive. I'm sure you've put a lot of effort into your project. But we can not see how deep your charecter is developed through logline. I'm just sharing my impressions and thoughts - this is what you asked for. This is one person's opinion. I like your project, so I took the time to comment. I hope you found them useful. Otherwise, you have nothing to lose — they're free.

Antony Voronov I loved your opinion.It made look at my story from a different angle and that's very good in this writing world.

Congratulations on finishing your first feature screenplay, Alex Hastings! Stage 32 also has feedback services (www.stage32.com/scriptservices). Also, your logline and synopsis are on your profile, but your script isn't.

Thanks! I fixed it.

You're welcome, Alex Hastings. I sold four short scripts to a producer by posting them on my profile and networking. I hope you sell your script too! Happy Holidays!

Alex Hastings Congrats! It's always a big event to finish a project that you've been working on for six months, a year, or more. I've read synopsis. The combination of aliens and zombies feels fresh. I would have expected the film to be more tongue-in-cheek in the James Gunn vein, playing with genre, rather than a serious narrative in 2000's style. I would also mention about aliens in logline, if I were you.

where is it? I clicked on the link and it took me to your profile page but there wasn't any loglines or scripts

Thank you guys

You're welcome, Pink Matzke.

Wow Pink Matzke as an older woman I can relate, thank you.

Marie I'm glad that resonated with you

And Tania thank you so much

I like it!

Sounds very cool.

This prospective poster reminded me The Unborn (2009) and the creepy part here is the ghost seen in the mirror is the POV of the image.

Wow love it Matthew Thompson

Very cool

Thank you Myra ModelManagement .

And write what you want. Don't let everyone's opinions dictate what you should or shouldn't do. There is no right 'path'. The wrong one is to do nothing.

To the next script!

Myra Model Manegement is right ✅️

Knowledge is Power

Well said. Thank you

I like your logline, Daniel Stuelpnagel. It kept my attention. I try to keep my loglines to 35 words or less/around 35 words. I also think a writer's style plays a part in writing loglines.

Maurice Vaughan absolutely, thanks! And I recognize the lightweight comedy tone and genre does confer a level of irreverent playfulness that would not land with other genres.

You're welcome, Daniel Stuelpnagel. Writers can use humor in Comedy loglines, dread in Horror loglines, mystery in Mystery loglines (not too much), etc.

The idea is unique, but make sure the snowballs never melt during the fight.

You're welcome, Meriem Bouziani. Keep trying. It took me a while to get interest and script requests this way. Great idea. Thanks.

Yeah, it’s not that easy. I’ll try once I finish my first script. Before, I was trying to pitch novels, I didn’t fully understand what I should be doing with those ideas. Maurice Vaughan

I hope you get interest and requests, Meriem Bouziani! You could ask for advice on pitching novels in the Authoring & Playwriting Lounge (www.stage32.com/lounge/playwriting).

It’s not working anymore, as I’ve developed the story much further, and the earlier version was an AI draft, so it isn’t copyrightable. Maurice Vaughan