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Script Consultant Hayley McKenzie shares some advice ahead of our next Open Call for script submissions.

Few British movies begin quite as arrestingly as Trainspotting. Iggy Pop’s ‘Lust For Life’ is pounding away on the soundtrack. With store detectives in hot pursuit, Renton is running down Edinburgh’s Princes Street, that cynosure for shoppers, tourists and tartan-and-shortbread connoisseurs. His face, seen in big close-up, is sporting a wry smile. He’s enjoying himself.…

Earlier this year, Apple acquired the adaptation rights to Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn and Stormlight Archive series, with the intention of turning Mistborn into a feature film and Stormlight Archive into an Apple TV series. Recently, Sanderson confirmed that he has finished and submitted the first draft for the Mistborn screenplay. If that sounds like an…