“Unveiling Ridley Scott’s Unexpected Strategy: The Secret to Captivating Hollywood Execs Revealed!”
When it comes to screenwriters, beyond attending pitch fests, those one to two-sentence loglines are really what sell your script beyond the actual read of them.
Ridley Scott on the set of ‘Napoleon’ (2023)
Give Your Story a Ticking Time Clock
Ridley Scott says, “You should light the idea up, and within that, you’ve got to have a fuse—a time bomb. When you just have [characters] doing something for something’s sake, that’s dangerous.”
Case in point, his latest producing effort, Alien: Romulus.
Based on his ongoing Alien franchise (he directed Alien, Prometheus, and Alien: Covenant), the producer’s latest installment tells the story of a group of young scavengers trapped on a derelict space station that’s going to crash into a planet’s rings in 36 hours. Yeah, of course, there’s at least one Xenomorph alien involved. But the added element of the ticking time clock plot device gives added stakes to the story and characters.
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