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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 · 4h

13 Horror Movies To Get To Know Me:

Hellboy (cough, cough)
Alien
The Thing
Night Of The Demon
Upstream Colour
Jaws (it's a horror movie, c'mon!)
Jurassic Park (it's a horror movie, c'mon!)
Poltergeist
(Coppola's) Dracula
The Fly ('86)
Tremors
Halloween
The Woman In Black (Harry Potter version.)

Richard Humphries @rhenryhumphries.bsky.social · 6h

13 Horror Movies To Get to Know Me

Romero’s Day of the Dead
Carpenter’s The Thing
Fulci’s The Beyond
Alien
The Mummy ‘59
Hellraiser
Creature from the Black Lagoon 3D
Jurassic Park
THEM!
Black Scorpion
Phantasm
Lifeforce
Dead Alive

𝕄🌕𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕗𝕥 𝕄👁️𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 @moonshiftmonsters.bsky.social · 6h

13 Horror movies to get to know me by

Wes Craven's Cursed
Trick r' Treat
Dog Soldiers
Fright Night (original)
Halloween (all)
Ginger Snaps
An American Werewolf in London
Poltergeist series
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
The Lost Boys series
The Thing
IT (both versions)
Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton)

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 6h

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa"

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 6h

I don't know why I never did this before...but I idly Shazamed "Escape From New York" (a movie I once wrote a sequel to...long story) last night...and discovered the tape played by Cabbie (which ruins the Hartford Peace Summit) is Les Elgart's '54 Bandstand Boogie.
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1954 HITS ARCHIVE: Bandstand Boogie - Les Elgart (‘American Bandstand’ theme)

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 6h

Saw the '66 Pollack movie "This Property Is Condemned". Kept thinking it felt like a typical Tennessee Williams rehash...mostly as it is, adapted from his one act play by Coppola. Redford's the guy who comes to a small town to lay people off, Natalie Wood is the dreamer who falls for him. Liked it.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 12h

Tron creates a terrific Dialog "lexicon" of terms that sound wonderfully cyberpunk. Legacy didn't even manage to come close to that invention, its seductive surface gloss aside. Tron just suffers from that cheap in-house Disney period live action cinematography "look".

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

"Sammy - I think this is the beginning of a beautiful investment scam..."

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

Today's Scribblequinn Inktober Day 6 chaos: "Starfish"

#inktober2025 #inktober #illustration #artwork #ink #drawing #cartoons #starfish
www.instagram.com/p/DPhnCHFiscd/

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

"Straight out of Central Casting."

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 21h

The Administration suffers from scattershot structure, lack of a clear throughline, and frankly-implausible character arcs.

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1d

Oh. From what? What's she done? (In the interests of disclosure, I realized the other day due to her new album drop, that I actually know one of her songs - Shake It Off - although I'm blissfully unaware of the rest of her output. She's hot, though.)

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1d

This old man doesn't know what "caping" means, so explain it to me, please.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1d

See, I'm the reverse. This is the moment I panic and go back through my Followers List to cull back the Bots and Phonies.

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

Oh, god. You're right. He'll be one of the early annoying Boom Olivers.

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

I remember somebody taking me there proudly and showing it off. I never had the heart to tell him about Foyles Books in London...

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

Oh, I SO get that reference!

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

Well - the legend is it was "Vengeance Of Khan", and Lucas leaned on Paramount (a "Temple Of Doom" threat) to change it to "Wrath", as he didn't want a "Revenge Of The Jedi" confusion. Until someone told Lucas a Jedi couldn't have revenge. But Paramount had changed the "Trek" title then, and so...

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

Oooooh! Maybe not! The chemicals on those wipes and sanitizer might not like some of the more esoteric materials if you have some exotic fountain pens.

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

I went looking: IT WASN'T A FEVER DREAM! I didn't imagine it!

Thank God. I spent decades thinking it was false memory syndrome. Here it is: "Vengeance", not "Wrath".

@nicholasmeyer.bsky.social: do you have any idea how these early toys went ahead and leaked out, despite the "Jedi" title change?

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

Today's @scribblequinn Inktober Day 5: "Deer"

No menacing monsters chasing the boys today...just Robo-Rudolph!

#inktober2025 #inktober #illustration #artwork #ink #drawing #cartoons #deer www.instagram.com/p/DPcaazhijU0/

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

I was in a village toy shop in Britain around '86 and found a small Diecast Trek 2 Enterprise. What made me look twice was the packaging said "The Vengeance Of Khan" on it. I wish I'd bought it. I've never seen one since, and I've never seen anyone report original title packaging "in the wild".

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

Tahoe is a problematic OS. People don't like installing it.

Have you looked on the Reddit page for Open Core?

Hopefully you backed-up.
www.reddit.com/r/OpenCoreLe...

OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

Welcome to r/OpenCoreLegacyPatcher! This subreddit is for everything about installing macOS on unsupported Macs using OpenCore Legacy Patcher. Posts regarding hackintoshes belong in r/hackintosh. NOTE...

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

This one --

"Astronomers discover that the moon isn't a natural satellite. It's an egg, and it's starting to hatch."

-- Is literally the plot of the staggeringly-terrible Peter Capaldi "Doctor Who" episode "Kill The Moon".

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

If you're not familiar, Ifixit.com has excellent step-by-step instructions for upgrading both RAM and Drives on your older machines (and the great thing about older machines, is they likely WILL be upgradeable, as opposed to the newer crippled Apple MacBooks, designed to part you from your money.)

iFixit: The Free Repair Manual

iFixit is a global community of people helping each other repair things. Let's fix the world, one device at a time. Troubleshoot with experts in the Answers forum—and build your own how-to guides to s...

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

A natural progression.

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

In an earlier Troma era, it would be a "Current Administration" putting all the minorities into one platoon to try "get rid of their problem". I'm thinking a camper version of "Tropic Thunder". You can see The Current Bloke initiating "Operation Rainbow Warrior"...