William C Martell
@wcmartell.bsky.social
Writer of 20 produced films... Mostly awful.
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Thursday's Script Tip: A CAST OF THOUSANDS? Let's say you have 100 16-18 year old young men competing in THE LONG WALK... how do you create that many different characters? How to use the story to find 100 different characters!
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Thursday's Script Tip: A CAST OF THOUSANDS? Let's say you have 100 16-18 year old young men competing in THE LONG WALK... how do you create that many different characters? How to use the story to find 100 different characters!
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip389....
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
Screenwriting Tip Of The Day by William C. Martell - Cast Of 1,000?
thursday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell
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November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
NEW!
Thursday's Script Tip: A CAST OF THOUSANDS? Let's say you have 100 16-18 year old young men competing in THE LONG WALK... how do you create that many different characters? How to use the story to find 100 different characters!
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip389....
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
Thursday's Script Tip: A CAST OF THOUSANDS? Let's say you have 100 16-18 year old young men competing in THE LONG WALK... how do you create that many different characters? How to use the story to find 100 different characters!
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip389....
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
"If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way."
I love this line from today's movie because it's a 2+2, you let the audience solve the obvious equation.
#scripysky #filmsky
I love this line from today's movie because it's a 2+2, you let the audience solve the obvious equation.
#scripysky #filmsky
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way."
I love this line from today's movie because it's a 2+2, you let the audience solve the obvious equation.
#scripysky #filmsky
I love this line from today's movie because it's a 2+2, you let the audience solve the obvious equation.
#scripysky #filmsky
Wednesday's Script Tip: You Can't Do That In A Movie! Waking up the reader with a shocking scene that breaks all of the rules (which don't exist). We look at a French film that became a USA mega-hit!
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www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip373.... #scriptsky #filmsky
Screenwriting Tip Of The Day by William C. Martell - You Cant Do That
Thursday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell
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November 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Wednesday's Script Tip: You Can't Do That In A Movie! Waking up the reader with a shocking scene that breaks all of the rules (which don't exist). We look at a French film that became a USA mega-hit!
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www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip373.... #scriptsky #filmsky
“Anyone would think our girls look forward to a grand inheritance. When you die, our girls will be left without a roof to their head nor a penny to their name.”
From today's movie.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
From today's movie.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“Anyone would think our girls look forward to a grand inheritance. When you die, our girls will be left without a roof to their head nor a penny to their name.”
From today's movie.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
From today's movie.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
It's just one damned word after another! If you want to be a writer, you have to write. Constantly. And when you aren't writing, you are thinking about writing. A lot of paperwork!
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November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It's just one damned word after another! If you want to be a writer, you have to write. Constantly. And when you aren't writing, you are thinking about writing. A lot of paperwork!
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"Well, since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking."
From today's movie, it seems topical.
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From today's movie, it seems topical.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Well, since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking."
From today's movie, it seems topical.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
From today's movie, it seems topical.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
On This Day In Film History - November 5, 2029 - Skynet sends the Terminator back to start Judgement Day in 1997.
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Terminator Anthology (The Terminator / Terminator 2: Judgment Day / Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / Terminator Salvation) [Blu-ray]
See the complete world as created by Academy Award-winning director James Cameron with the complete and definitive collection of all four films on Blu-ray. Never before has there been a collection of ...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
On This Day In Film History - November 5, 2029 - Skynet sends the Terminator back to start Judgement Day in 1997.
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"I'm not strong enough!"
"And this will make you stronger? That's what this is? Some sort of workout?"
"I can't lose you again! I can't. Not again. I'm not strong enough."
"If we work together, you won't have to be."
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"And this will make you stronger? That's what this is? Some sort of workout?"
"I can't lose you again! I can't. Not again. I'm not strong enough."
"If we work together, you won't have to be."
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"I'm not strong enough!"
"And this will make you stronger? That's what this is? Some sort of workout?"
"I can't lose you again! I can't. Not again. I'm not strong enough."
"If we work together, you won't have to be."
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
"And this will make you stronger? That's what this is? Some sort of workout?"
"I can't lose you again! I can't. Not again. I'm not strong enough."
"If we work together, you won't have to be."
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
“They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.”
Remember who this was about?
From today's movie.
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Remember who this was about?
From today's movie.
#filmsky #scriptsky #writing
November 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.”
Remember who this was about?
From today's movie.
#filmsky #scriptsky #writing
Remember who this was about?
From today's movie.
#filmsky #scriptsky #writing
Monday's Script Tip: CHANGE UP! GENRE! We look at how PLANE (2023) keeps changing subgenres to prevent being predictable. Disaster movie to Hostage Rescue to Action flick! A great tool for your story!
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Screenwriting Tip Of The Day by William C. Martell - Change Up Genre
Monday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell
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November 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Monday's Script Tip: CHANGE UP! GENRE! We look at how PLANE (2023) keeps changing subgenres to prevent being predictable. Disaster movie to Hostage Rescue to Action flick! A great tool for your story!
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip36.htm
#screenwriting #film #amwriting #scriptchat #scriptsecrets
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip36.htm
#screenwriting #film #amwriting #scriptchat #scriptsecrets
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Every year I write new (or rewrite) Script Tip articles on my website. There are over 400 - but some are in the garage waiting for repairs. Working on a couple of new ones for November. SNOWBALL! and SOMETHING BORROWED SOMETHING BLUE, maybe a couple of others. Free.
October 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Every year I write new (or rewrite) Script Tip articles on my website. There are over 400 - but some are in the garage waiting for repairs. Working on a couple of new ones for November. SNOWBALL! and SOMETHING BORROWED SOMETHING BLUE, maybe a couple of others. Free.
Forgot: Monday's Script Tip: YOUR PLOT SEED. How to avoid a Scattershot Plot? We look at LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL and how all of the pieces are logically connected and grow from the concept (seed). Focus isn't only for the camera!
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip221....
#writing #filmsky #scriptsky
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip221....
#writing #filmsky #scriptsky
Screenwriting Tip Of The Day by William C. Martell - Plot Seed
Monday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell
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October 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Forgot: Monday's Script Tip: YOUR PLOT SEED. How to avoid a Scattershot Plot? We look at LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL and how all of the pieces are logically connected and grow from the concept (seed). Focus isn't only for the camera!
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip221....
#writing #filmsky #scriptsky
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip221....
#writing #filmsky #scriptsky
Thursday's Script Tip: BACKGROUND TO DANGER! You are writing a horror script (or pick your genre), how do you make yours different? Set it in an interesting world! A female Pop Star with a famous boyfriend? SMILE 2!
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www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip384....
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Screenwriting Tip Of The Day by William C. Martell - Background To Danger
thursday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell
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October 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Thursday's Script Tip: BACKGROUND TO DANGER! You are writing a horror script (or pick your genre), how do you make yours different? Set it in an interesting world! A female Pop Star with a famous boyfriend? SMILE 2!
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip384....
#writing #filmsky #screenwriting #scriptsky
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip384....
#writing #filmsky #screenwriting #scriptsky
“Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch it. Who could have predicted that a free people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a box with pictures?”
Today's film quote.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
Today's film quote.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch it. Who could have predicted that a free people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a box with pictures?”
Today's film quote.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
Today's film quote.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
"I rolled into town in a $250,000 vehicle named after one of the fastest animals on earth."
"A Jaguar XKE?"
"Guess again..."
It's National Cat Day.
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"A Jaguar XKE?"
"Guess again..."
It's National Cat Day.
#scriptsky #filmsky #booksky
October 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"I rolled into town in a $250,000 vehicle named after one of the fastest animals on earth."
"A Jaguar XKE?"
"Guess again..."
It's National Cat Day.
#scriptsky #filmsky #booksky
"A Jaguar XKE?"
"Guess again..."
It's National Cat Day.
#scriptsky #filmsky #booksky
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Monday's Script Tip: YOUR PLOT SEED. How to avoid a Scattershot Plot? We look at LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL and how all of the pieces are logically connected and grow from the concept (seed). Focus isn't only for the camera!
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip221....
#writing #filmsky #scriptsky
Monday's Script Tip: YOUR PLOT SEED. How to avoid a Scattershot Plot? We look at LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL and how all of the pieces are logically connected and grow from the concept (seed). Focus isn't only for the camera!
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip221....
#writing #filmsky #scriptsky
Screenwriting Tip Of The Day by William C. Martell - Plot Seed
Monday's Screenwriting Tip by William C. Martell
www.scriptsecrets.net
October 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
NEW!
Monday's Script Tip: YOUR PLOT SEED. How to avoid a Scattershot Plot? We look at LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL and how all of the pieces are logically connected and grow from the concept (seed). Focus isn't only for the camera!
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip221....
#writing #filmsky #scriptsky
Monday's Script Tip: YOUR PLOT SEED. How to avoid a Scattershot Plot? We look at LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL and how all of the pieces are logically connected and grow from the concept (seed). Focus isn't only for the camera!
www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip221....
#writing #filmsky #scriptsky
16 years ago my films invaded the UK, and were completely unavoidable if you were watching the Movies For Men channel. Once again, I am sorry for that!
A couple of weeks before this I had a different movie on M4M every day for a week. 7 films, 7 days!
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
A couple of weeks before this I had a different movie on M4M every day for a week. 7 films, 7 days!
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
October 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
16 years ago my films invaded the UK, and were completely unavoidable if you were watching the Movies For Men channel. Once again, I am sorry for that!
A couple of weeks before this I had a different movie on M4M every day for a week. 7 films, 7 days!
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
A couple of weeks before this I had a different movie on M4M every day for a week. 7 films, 7 days!
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
You could never make a horror movie about something as boring as Text To Speech ...
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Text-To-Speech in 1846 Involved a Talking Robotic Head With Ringlets
Meet the Euphonia, a machine that boasted the ability to replicate human speech.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
You could never make a horror movie about something as boring as Text To Speech ...
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#writing #scriptsky #filmsky
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Released on this date in 1966 Billy Wilder's blacker than black comedy THE FORTUNE COOKIE starring Lemon & Matthau...
Also Matthau in an action role in CHARLIE VARRICK was released on this date.
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Also Matthau in an action role in CHARLIE VARRICK was released on this date.
youtu.be/3PTtQLQgaO0?...
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The Fortune Cookie (1966) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers
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October 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Released on this date in 1966 Billy Wilder's blacker than black comedy THE FORTUNE COOKIE starring Lemon & Matthau...
Also Matthau in an action role in CHARLIE VARRICK was released on this date.
youtu.be/3PTtQLQgaO0?...
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
Also Matthau in an action role in CHARLIE VARRICK was released on this date.
youtu.be/3PTtQLQgaO0?...
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
October 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Try to avoid "still lifes" - if characters are just talking, get them walking!
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October 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Try to avoid "still lifes" - if characters are just talking, get them walking!
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"You know what dirty money is? That's the kind of money you can't declare on your income tax. Well, when certain people get that kind of money, what they do is send it out of the country to invest, and when it comes back, it's clean."
From a film released on this date.
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From a film released on this date.
#filmsky #scriptsky #books
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"You know what dirty money is? That's the kind of money you can't declare on your income tax. Well, when certain people get that kind of money, what they do is send it out of the country to invest, and when it comes back, it's clean."
From a film released on this date.
#filmsky #scriptsky #books
From a film released on this date.
#filmsky #scriptsky #books
On this date in 1862 Auguste Lumière, the French filmmaker who made the very first movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory) was born in Besançon, France.
youtu.be/bFb2BeOaWak?...
I hear they're remaking it... I'm VisaVision.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
youtu.be/bFb2BeOaWak?...
I hear they're remaking it... I'm VisaVision.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory 1895
YouTube video by TheEarlycinema
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October 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
On this date in 1862 Auguste Lumière, the French filmmaker who made the very first movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory) was born in Besançon, France.
youtu.be/bFb2BeOaWak?...
I hear they're remaking it... I'm VisaVision.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing
youtu.be/bFb2BeOaWak?...
I hear they're remaking it... I'm VisaVision.
#scriptsky #filmsky #writing