Gary Howell - Screenwriter
@garyhowell.bsky.social
Attorney and screenwriter with several produced short films and one feature optioned. Tv pilot “Bounty” in Coverfly’s top 1% of all discoverable projects. Likes dogs. Voted class clown in high school - still haven’t benefited from that distinction.
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I posted this copyright thread on that "other" site a couple of years ago, and it's probably a good time to resurrect it now that I'm connecting with a lot of screenwriters that were not mutuals but are now.
Normally, I don't get excited about too much going on with television, and especially with reboots, but this one has me thoroughly pumped #ScriptSky #FilmSky
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‘Scrubs’ Reboot Gets Series Order at ABC; Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke to Return
ABC has picked up the reboot of "Scrubs" to series, with original stars Zach Braff, Donald Faison, and Sarah Chalke returning
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July 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Normally, I don't get excited about too much going on with television, and especially with reboots, but this one has me thoroughly pumped #ScriptSky #FilmSky
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
How the year is going so far:
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June 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
How the year is going so far:
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#ScriptSky
Taking some time off from writing to get some much needed vacation in the Turks and Caicos! #ScriptSky #tropicallife #noshoesnoshirtnoproblem
June 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Taking some time off from writing to get some much needed vacation in the Turks and Caicos! #ScriptSky #tropicallife #noshoesnoshirtnoproblem
So I get a notification from Coverfly that my comedy "Squeal Team Six" has a new badge for being in the top whatever. I mean, nice, but what am I supposed to do with that after they close up shop? #ScriptSky
May 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
So I get a notification from Coverfly that my comedy "Squeal Team Six" has a new badge for being in the top whatever. I mean, nice, but what am I supposed to do with that after they close up shop? #ScriptSky
What’s a movie you think nobody but you and a handful of people have heard of, that you think is a fantastic film?
#filmsky #scriptsky
#filmsky #scriptsky
May 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
What’s a movie you think nobody but you and a handful of people have heard of, that you think is a fantastic film?
#filmsky #scriptsky
#filmsky #scriptsky
🎬🎥
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
3/20
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
3/20
a woman is sitting at a desk with her hand on her head and the words no that was good thank you
ALT: a woman is sitting at a desk with her hand on her head and the words no that was good thank you
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January 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🎬🎥
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
3/20
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
3/20
🎬🎥
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
2/20
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
2/20
a black and white photo of a man and woman holding a little girl .
ALT: a black and white photo of a man and woman holding a little girl .
media.tenor.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
🎬🎥
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
2/20
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
2/20
🎬🎥
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
1/20
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
1/20
a group of men are standing in a crowd with the words well she turned me into a newt
ALT: a group of men are standing in a crowd with the words well she turned me into a newt
media.tenor.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM
🎬🎥
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
1/20
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
1/20
Just started watching "Landman" and I think Billy Bob Thornton just makes everything he's in better. I would even watch one of those crappy Hallmark Christmas movies with Chad Michael Murray if Thornton was in it
#ScriptSky
#ScriptSky
January 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Just started watching "Landman" and I think Billy Bob Thornton just makes everything he's in better. I would even watch one of those crappy Hallmark Christmas movies with Chad Michael Murray if Thornton was in it
#ScriptSky
#ScriptSky
I celebrated National Screenwriter's Day by watching football, eating Mexican food, drinking margaritas, and not realizing it was National Screenwriter's Day, a.k.a. another day that I didn't get any writing done
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#ScriptSky
January 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I celebrated National Screenwriter's Day by watching football, eating Mexican food, drinking margaritas, and not realizing it was National Screenwriter's Day, a.k.a. another day that I didn't get any writing done
#ScriptSky
#ScriptSky
Five things you’ll find in my scripts:
* throwaway one-liners
* A wild hog being helicoptered into a football stadium
* A drug lord in a kimono
* A teen shooting off roman candles in the middle of a cattle stampede
* A man falling in love with a lifelike fembot who is sent to kill him
#ScriptSky
* throwaway one-liners
* A wild hog being helicoptered into a football stadium
* A drug lord in a kimono
* A teen shooting off roman candles in the middle of a cattle stampede
* A man falling in love with a lifelike fembot who is sent to kill him
#ScriptSky
Five things you’ll find in my scripts:
- Someone stripping and jumping into water
- Women salivating over steak
- Shattered or spilled wine. Red.
- Someone showing up with grocery bags
- People lying about having migraines
#scriptsky
- Someone stripping and jumping into water
- Women salivating over steak
- Shattered or spilled wine. Red.
- Someone showing up with grocery bags
- People lying about having migraines
#scriptsky
January 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Five things you’ll find in my scripts:
* throwaway one-liners
* A wild hog being helicoptered into a football stadium
* A drug lord in a kimono
* A teen shooting off roman candles in the middle of a cattle stampede
* A man falling in love with a lifelike fembot who is sent to kill him
#ScriptSky
* throwaway one-liners
* A wild hog being helicoptered into a football stadium
* A drug lord in a kimono
* A teen shooting off roman candles in the middle of a cattle stampede
* A man falling in love with a lifelike fembot who is sent to kill him
#ScriptSky
after the terror attack in New Orleans and the Tesla truck fire in front of the Trump building in Vegas, I think it's time to call in the Avengers.
January 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
after the terror attack in New Orleans and the Tesla truck fire in front of the Trump building in Vegas, I think it's time to call in the Avengers.
Ah, Christmas, the day to be with 100,000 other lost souls in the United Club as you prepare to go lose your shirt in Vegas (but at least there’s free drinks!!!)
December 25, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Ah, Christmas, the day to be with 100,000 other lost souls in the United Club as you prepare to go lose your shirt in Vegas (but at least there’s free drinks!!!)
I’m over at my daughter’s apartment for dinner and she has a Spotify playlist going and these were the first groups on the list:
Moon Taxi
Hippo Campus
Taco Cat
Mice Elf
I’m really old
#ScriptSky
Moon Taxi
Hippo Campus
Taco Cat
Mice Elf
I’m really old
#ScriptSky
December 20, 2024 at 12:56 AM
I’m over at my daughter’s apartment for dinner and she has a Spotify playlist going and these were the first groups on the list:
Moon Taxi
Hippo Campus
Taco Cat
Mice Elf
I’m really old
#ScriptSky
Moon Taxi
Hippo Campus
Taco Cat
Mice Elf
I’m really old
#ScriptSky
Happy Days (Intro) S3 (1976)
YouTube video by RetroAlexander
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December 18, 2024 at 11:55 PM
YouTube TV is raising their prices an additional $10/month beginning January 1st. Their prices have doubled in five years. Not sure it's the value it was before because half of the channels seem to be news or nonsense.
December 12, 2024 at 4:42 PM
YouTube TV is raising their prices an additional $10/month beginning January 1st. Their prices have doubled in five years. Not sure it's the value it was before because half of the channels seem to be news or nonsense.
Went to see "Wicked" this evening (awesome BTW) and after watching 25 minutes of previews, I noted something really interesting -- not a single preview gave billing to a single actor, not even Tom Cruise. Are actors now such a disposable commodity you can't even acknowledge them?
#ScriptSky
#ScriptSky
December 5, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Went to see "Wicked" this evening (awesome BTW) and after watching 25 minutes of previews, I noted something really interesting -- not a single preview gave billing to a single actor, not even Tom Cruise. Are actors now such a disposable commodity you can't even acknowledge them?
#ScriptSky
#ScriptSky
Trying something different, but writing is writing, right?
5 books to get to know me:
1. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
2. Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
3. Boy's Life - Robert McGammon
4. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
5. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (I cheated!)
#ScriptSky
5 books to get to know me:
1. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
2. Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
3. Boy's Life - Robert McGammon
4. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
5. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (I cheated!)
#ScriptSky
December 4, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Trying something different, but writing is writing, right?
5 books to get to know me:
1. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
2. Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
3. Boy's Life - Robert McGammon
4. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
5. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (I cheated!)
#ScriptSky
5 books to get to know me:
1. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
2. Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
3. Boy's Life - Robert McGammon
4. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
5. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (I cheated!)
#ScriptSky
If you're into sports, especially pro football, then @minakimes.bsky.social is worth the follow.
November 24, 2024 at 3:09 AM
If you're into sports, especially pro football, then @minakimes.bsky.social is worth the follow.
What a day, played golf in 70 degree sunshine, watched my college FB team win, wrote a couple of pages on my WIP, had an amazing pizza for dinner with the fam, now drinking a robust cabernet. #Perfection #ScriptSky
November 24, 2024 at 2:31 AM
What a day, played golf in 70 degree sunshine, watched my college FB team win, wrote a couple of pages on my WIP, had an amazing pizza for dinner with the fam, now drinking a robust cabernet. #Perfection #ScriptSky
So how about a #FirstPageFriday on a work in progress. CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR follows Jack as he tries to find love in a sea full of women who are uninterested in him. #ScriptSky
November 22, 2024 at 5:56 PM
So how about a #FirstPageFriday on a work in progress. CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR follows Jack as he tries to find love in a sea full of women who are uninterested in him. #ScriptSky
#Scriptsky silly fun. #FirstTenVerbs challenge: list out the first ten verbs as they appear in your WIP:
emerges
rolls
extends
wipes
strains
pull
find
stands
drops
comes
I promise this page is neither about going to the bathroom or having sex.
emerges
rolls
extends
wipes
strains
pull
find
stands
drops
comes
I promise this page is neither about going to the bathroom or having sex.
#Scriptsky silly fun. #FirstTenVerbs challenge: list out the first ten verbs as they appear in your WIP:
Hugs
Hangs
Hear
Scans
Stops
Searches
Glances
Sees
Hangs
Checks
November 21, 2024 at 8:13 PM
#Scriptsky silly fun. #FirstTenVerbs challenge: list out the first ten verbs as they appear in your WIP:
emerges
rolls
extends
wipes
strains
pull
find
stands
drops
comes
I promise this page is neither about going to the bathroom or having sex.
emerges
rolls
extends
wipes
strains
pull
find
stands
drops
comes
I promise this page is neither about going to the bathroom or having sex.
Sad to say, I've already started getting bot follower requests (contrary to some thinking on here, BlueSky does allow bots - see below link). I've even an AI program try to chat with me. Do your due diligence before following/accepting. #ScriptSky
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Bots | Bluesky
Bots are accounts on the network that post automatically. Popular ones include bots that post the magnitude of recent earthquakes, photos from an archive on a regular schedule, etc.
docs.bsky.app
November 20, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Sad to say, I've already started getting bot follower requests (contrary to some thinking on here, BlueSky does allow bots - see below link). I've even an AI program try to chat with me. Do your due diligence before following/accepting. #ScriptSky
docs.bsky.app/docs/starter....
docs.bsky.app/docs/starter....
November 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Just curious for my writer peeps -- have you ever collaborated with another screenwriter on a script? How did that go? Did you feel like your styles meshed and were you pleased with how it all turned out? How did you manage the logistics of who did what? #ScriptSky
November 17, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Just curious for my writer peeps -- have you ever collaborated with another screenwriter on a script? How did that go? Did you feel like your styles meshed and were you pleased with how it all turned out? How did you manage the logistics of who did what? #ScriptSky