Short Round’s Machine Gun Battle With Biplanes Was Cut From ‘Temple of Doom’ February 18, 2023 Daniel Rennie Off Home, Screenwriting, Short Round, Indy's precocious 12-year-old aide in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, was...
Inside Superman Returns’ Canceled Sequel Featuring Darkseid? Brainiac? A New Krypton? And Why It Never Happened? February 15, 2023 Daniel Rennie Off DC, Home, Screenwriting, In 2006, Superman returned to the big screen after a two-decade hiatus. The film could...
Three Former Lawyers Join Writer’s Room on ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ January 25, 2023 Daniel Rennie Off Screenwriting, Writing, Netflix's Daredevil set the bar high for Disney+'s follow-up series, Daredevil: Born Again. Fans were a bit disappointed when...
Brainstorming Indy: Inside the 1978 ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ Story Conference February 19, 2021 Daniel Rennie Off Character, Franchises, Home, Indiana Jones, Screenwriting, Writing, Would you like to see genius at work? Would you like to see how one...
‘Star Wars’ Borrowed More From ‘Dune’ Than You Realize August 12, 2020 Daniel Rennie Off Home, Screenwriting, Writing, Search your bookcase, you know it to be true In 1977, Star Wars hit the big...
What Is A MacGuffin? An Explanation of Film’s Most Mysterious Plot Device March 25, 2020 Daniel Rennie Off Home, Screenwriting, Writing, What is a MacGuffin? It's perhaps the most mysterious plot device in film. The MacGuffin...
Akiva Goldsman On The Difficulty Of Bringing ‘Titans’ To The Small Screen November 20, 2018 Daniel Rennie Off DC, Filmmaking, Franchises, Screenwriting, The Producers, Writing, At 2018’s New York Comic Con, writer/producer Akiva Goldsman talked about the long and difficult...