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May 8, 20181 min read
'Catsaway' - Official Teaser Released.
CATSAWAY – THE MOVIE #Screenwriter Phil Parker was hired to develop the animated feature film #CATSAWAY from a bare-bones idea to a...
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Apr 12, 20181 min read
Phil Hired To Write Sports Drama in India
An Indian Sports Movie Like No Other Producers Ravindra Choudhary, Rob Kaplan and Tanuj Kumar Bansal have hired screenwriter Phil Parker...
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Mar 2, 20184 min read
Characters That Make Us Care
Like most people (whether they’re conscious of it or not) I go to see a film hoping to discover interesting #characters to care about, to...
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Feb 16, 20181 min read
Indigenous Superhero Script Praised
Client’s Indigenous Superhero Project at VFX House Last year, Phil was hired by Josh Bryer at Red Centre Films to rewrite his Indigenous...
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Nov 9, 20172 min read
Phil Parker On 'Top 25 Screenwriters' List
ISA Spotlights Top Screenwriters Screenwriter Phil Parker has been honored by the International Screenwriters' Association with his...
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Nov 3, 20172 min read
'The Third Bomb' - Option, Renwed!
BAFTA-winner Sias Wilson has just announced the renewal of his option on Phil Parker’s multi-award winning WWII script ‘The Third Bomb’....
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Aug 21, 20172 min read
Australian Sci-fi Script Advances!
Client's Australian Sci-fi Script Getting Noticed This year Phil was hired to rewrite the Aussie sci-fi script, KINDRED (story by Josh...
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Jun 28, 20171 min read
Popular WWII Script at Cannes Festival
BAFTA-WINNER OPENS DOORS FOR WWII SPEC SCRIPT The WWII spec script, The Third Bomb – a ‘secret history’ story about the doomed flight of...
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Jun 14, 20171 min read
Interest in Animated 'Catsaway' Heats Up
It was thrilling for this screenwriter to see the award-winning team at Tent Pictures Productions hold their first voice auditions in Abu...
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May 13, 20172 min read
Catsaway Project WOWS at Abu Dhabi Festival
Last year director Fadel AlMehiri at Tent Pictures Productions hired me to develop an idea for his animated feature film concept –...
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Apr 14, 20174 min read
Screenwriter At The Movies: Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca: What I Learned From It This Time. Last week, at my local cinema, I had the privilege of seeing a digital restoration of the...
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Mar 20, 20173 min read
Rewriting Your Script: 3 Tips Before You Start
Just writing a screenplay is incredibly hard work for most screenwriters, let alone script rewriting! After many weeks/ months/ years of...
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Mar 9, 20172 min read
Indigenous Australian Sci-Fi Script Finished. Client Thrilled!
The Challenge of Rewriting Someone Else's Idea They say at least 90% of your career as a screenwriter will be spent rewriting other...
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Feb 21, 20173 min read
Screenwriter At The Movies: 'Gold' (2016)
Make your hero earn it. Before I left for the cinema I checked Rotten Tomatoes. They had ‘Gold’ rated at 41% critics/ 51% fans. Normally,...
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Dec 20, 201610 min read
HERO'S JOURNEY: Midnight Run (1988)
In this ongoing series I give a breakdown of a film plot, as seen through the eyes of a screenwriter, and its use (conscious, or not) of...
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Nov 8, 20162 min read
'Third Atomic Bomb' Script Optioned
Phil Parker’s multi-award winning WWII story The Third Bomb has now been optioned by BAFTA-winning producer Sias Wilson (FLYING MONSTERS,...
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Nov 6, 20164 min read
HERO'S JOURNEY: The Treasure of The Sierra Madre (1948)
In this ongoing series, I give a basic breakdown of a film plot, as seen through the eyes of a screenwriter, and its use (conscious, or...
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Sep 28, 20161 min read
Screenwriter Phil Parker Hired Again
Job complete. Client thrilled. Hired again! That’s the kind of news I love to hear! Recently, the award-winning filmmakers at Tent...
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Jun 10, 20161 min read
Black List Praises Indigenous Australian Sci-Fi
Great feedback continues to roll in for our Indigenous sci-fi feature-length screenplay 'Kindred'! The prestigious (and notoriously hard...
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Jun 4, 20161 min read
More Praise For Indigenous Sci-Fi Script
Off the back of his multi-award winning screenplay, ‘The Third Bomb‘, screenwriter Phil Parker was hired to rewrite ‘Kindred‘ – an...
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