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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨

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Co-writer 2004 #Hellboy movie @WGAWest Screenwriter 🎥 • TV writer 📺 (Rep: Dench Agency UK) Amazon #1 best-selling novelist 🖊️ • Comic books @ScriptreaderPro Consultant Direct: https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm1486009/?rf=cons_nm_contact&ref_=nm_pub_upslb_lo

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hi, #Scriptsky. I'm Peter Briggs: I sold my first spec to Fox in '92. I'm credited co-writer on the 2004 movie "Hellboy"; past 30 years I've been hired-by or sold specs to all the major studios.

My side hustle: I provide consultancy to emerging screenwriters serious about their craft. Links above!

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 2h

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 3h

It's funny nobody's mentioned a singalong of Paul McCartney's "Frog Chorus" in the streets, en-masse.

Seriously. Just look at the lyrics.

That "We All Stand Together" part might work quite well...

Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together (Official Music Video) youtu.be/gVfaf43W9cM?... via @YouTube

Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by PaulMcCartneyVEVO

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 3h

Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by PaulMcCartneyVEVO

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 3h

Three. Wachowskis. (Siblings! Siblings! I'm not going "there"...!)

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 3h

I'm a huge fan of stained glass. When I moved house from North London to South London, I had to leave behind a wonderful piece of stained glass in the entrance hall.

I often think about getting a custom stained glass piece made.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 3h

"8. Who would play you in a movie — and who shouldn’t be allowed to?"

Currently "Should": a deepfake Stellan Skargard from the Demi Moore movie "Passion Of Mind" (2000). Back in the mid 90s...Martin Fry from ABC.

Who shouldn't be allowed to: Kevin Sorbo. Because, really - just fuck that guy.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 4h

Mine was: "I got one coin, Star Wars. And five hours to kill..."

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 4h

I actually think "Ralph Breaks The Internet" has it beat.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 4h

"The Moon Is D-o-o-O-OWWWWW-n"

-- John Steinbeck (1942)

Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 4h

Canine-y Row

Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 5h

Beast of Eden

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 5h

So, he thinks that they're all secretly French ("Legionnaires"), as opposed to being "Legionaries"?

(I love the same mistake frequently getting made in DC Comics...)

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 5h

I have a friend of mine (one of my concept artists) who did a comic book 11 years ago called Chronos Commandos. Same premise.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 7h

As a kid, Mr Rainford pulled me up in front of class for drawing TIE fighters in the back of my maths book.

"You think drawing little space planes'll help get you job in the real world?" he sneered.

Years later I was making a movie with Gary Kurtz and told him this.

"Guess he was wrong", he said.

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 7h

It's an adaption?

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 7h

*"sterile and artificial".

Thanks, Mac spellchecker...

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not a fan of Goodfellas. My top five Scorseses:

1. The Color of Money
2. The Aviator
3. After Hours
4. The Age of Innocence
5. The King of Comedy

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 7h

I never listen to critics. They're cliquey and full of shit.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 9h

Primitive War didn't suck?!?

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 10h

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🍿

Felt like a Redford Week this week. Might be for the next week or so. I've some gaps that need plugging.

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 10h

The Story has to be organic. If you completely lock it in, it'll feel sterling artificial. Characters need to evolve and do spontaneous things that surprise you in the story, as you're telling it. Surprises need to evolve, otherwise you end up with three predictable Acts. #screenwriting #scriptsky

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 10h

Three Stage. The entire 70s Movie Brats before that.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 13h

He nearly foxed Columbo, so...

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · Aug 29

It's Friday, folks. Embrace your loved ones, pet the furry companions, ice up a cold one if that's your thing. Put on a movie. You deserve it. Above all, be glad you're not bitter and orange, and you have a life of happiness instead.

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 15h

Weird. Google says THERE ISN'T a SPECIFIC I-241 form.

241 refers to "Post-hearing Detention and Removal" within "APPREHENSION AND DETENTION OF ALIENS ORDERED REMOVED" in "Section 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act...requirements for removal or deportation."

www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...

8 CFR Part 241 -- Apprehension and Detention of Aliens Ordered Removed

www.ecfr.gov

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 15h

No, let's not "fuck the book bans". It's all a component part. Let one aspect slide, the whole thing collapses.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 16h

"Influence triangle"?

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 16h

I wonder how he felt the first time somebody handed him another creative tool. Like a Thesaurus.