One of Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie business.
Save the Cat is just one of many iron-clad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying and saleable, including:
- The four elements of every winning logline
- The seven immutable laws of screenplay physics
- The 10 genres that every movie ever made can be categorized by and why they’re important to your script
- Why your hero must serve your Idea
- Mastering the beats
- Creating the “perfect beast” by using… ‘The Board’
- And how to get back on track with proven rules for script repair
This ultimate insider’s guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a showbiz veteran who’s proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat.
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