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Screenwriter, dog walker, pizzaiolo, barista, & dishwasher, al nostro casa

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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
THE COLOUR OF LAW When a combative First Amendment Auditor records a Federal Reserve robbery, he realizes the cops investigating the crime are actually the thieves, and after staging their own deaths are hunting him down before his evidence exposes them. #scriptsky #FirstPageFriday
The poster for the screenplay of The Colour of LawPage 1 of the screenplay, THE COLOUR OF LAW
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BLUE GATSBY Presumed dead, Gatsby resurfaces under a new identity to short-sell Tom Buchanan’s empire and reclaim Daisy—until the only man who knows his playbook, bonds salesman Nick Carraway, forces Gatsby to decide which he’ll lose first: his fortune, his myth, or his life. #Screenpit #Dr #Hi
Poster for the screenplay, BLUE GATSBY. A man sits on a pier in a pre-dawn blue light.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MOTHER TONGUE 1660: When a politically ruined, blind poet abandons a major work he'd begun to outline, his rebellious daughter decides to write it herself -- in secret -- risking her own exile and personal ruin to pen the greatest English epic poem. #Screenpit #hi #Dr
The poster for the screenplay MOTHER TONGUE
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HUMBAG When an aspiring teacher inadvertently reveals that Santa is the product of a marketing campaign, outraged parents dox her and weaponize an event from her youth, to have her fired -- while a much darker truth behind her past threatens to destroy far more than her career. #Screenpit #Dr
The poster for the screenplay HUMBAG, with spray paint on the driver's door of a decrepit old Corolla that screams ""Humbag" in red paint.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
THE COLOUR OF LAW A combative 1A Auditor detained after videoing a robbery at a Federal Cash Office discovers that the police officers on the case masterminded the theft, and finds himself in a race to prove their guilt as they hunt down every trace of evidence implicating them. #Screenpit #Cri #Ac
Poster for THE COLOUR OF LAW of a police vest and belt.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BOWMANVILLE When a Canadian POW Camp Commandant is directed to quell a revolt of 400 Nazi Officers over a shackling order -- without using of any lethal weapons -- he and his 40 prison guards find themselves in a three day battle for their lives and honour. #Screenpit #Hi #Fea #Scriptsky
The poster for BOWMANVILLE, an historical WWII film about the battle between 400 Nazi officers and 40 Canadian guards over Thanksgiving weekend in 1942.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
USP 1491 An inmate wrongfully convicted of his wife's murder must survive a temporal release program set in pre-Columbian America to have any chance of finding her killer. #Screenpit #Si #Ac #Fea #scriptsky
The poster for USP 1491 where a man looks over a 12th century city of Cahokia, east of present-day St. Louis -- the location featured in this sci-fi action film.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SIX DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON A broke student filmmaker has six days to convince Kevin Bacon to star in his thesis film — or explain himself to the mobster whose money he’s already spent. #Screenpit #Co #4Q #Fea #scriptsky
Poster for SIX DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON featuring a silhouette of a man with his arm reaching above his head and a series of complex steps mapped out like a dance routine.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CONTAINED HORROR A disgraced, former teen star evades jail by slipping into the home of an enigmatic director to discover he has a to-die-for role for her in his next project along with an unsound fixation on the girl she used to be. #SCREENPIT #Ho #Fea #SeRe
The poster for CONTAINED HORROR with the san serif red text of the title within a dug grave on a field of lush, green grass.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why is he debating Mel Gibson?
Mel Gibson waits to debate masterdebator, Chas. Kirk
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fred Wiseman, too. Can't really go wrong with his work Titticut Follies is stunning. High School, Basic Training and Hospital are stand outs. Welfare is fantastic, as is Meat.
The poster for Fredrick Wiseman's documentary film, Welfare. The black and white images shows three people looking with some concern to the left of the image.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you're on a Mac, the passkey feature can update your password(s) across all devices where it's used.
Menu in a Mac for Passkeys
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You need to consider when this all started. Petty jealousy isn't that hard to understand once you know that's what drives most decisions. The single other driver is military-grade vanity.
The first lady greets the Canadian Prime Minister at the G7 Summit.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Before filmic odysseys had Trojan horses, they had dragonfly-inspired space ships.
The dragonfly-inspired spaceship from 2001: A Space Odyssey
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Imagine the title scene of Get Smart where our hero goes through various hallways and phone booths only to find himself in some infinite liminal space from which the only escape is the villain's lair.
Article headline declaring that the writer for the next James Bond film is tempted to set the next movie in a surprise location.A scene from the film BACKROOMS that should the yellowish tint and finish of liminal space.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
For my mushroom farm all of the marketing and pr was done by eight-year olds. They understood the brand promise better than any robot.
A sample of a marketing message delivered by eight year old members of the marketing committee for my mushroom farm.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
All I could think was, "mom must be so proud."
Man who dreams of being a Nazi professor makes his mom proud.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#SeventhPageSaturday #Scriptsky This is the 7th page from a new short: VACATION PAY When parents try to teach their girls the value of money by making them earn a trip to Disneyland that's already paid for, the kids teach their parents a life lesson by giving their money to a homeless man instead.
Page 7 from a new short: VACATION PAY
When parents try to teach their girls the value of money by making them earn a trip to Disneyland that's already paid for, the kids teach their parents a life lesson by giving their money to a homeless man instead.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
After the lil fella eats everyone out of house and home . . .
AI stands at the door to the bedroom at night where couple are sleeping and a woman in the bed say to the man in the bed, "It's AI again. He wants another thousand glasses of water."
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
NOTHING BUT FLOWERS SHORT After his father's death, A grieving man spends over two years leaving flowers on the grave of a forgotten neighbour, only to discover he's been paying his respects to a murderer before he accidentally meets the murdered woman's niece. #Scriptsky #FirstPageFriday
The first page of NOTHING BUT FLOWERS (SHORT)
After his father's death, A grieving man spends two years leaving flowers on the grave of a forgotten neighbour, only to discover he's been paying his respects to a murderer before he accidentally meets the murdered woman's niece.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
THE SUBSTITUTE [Crime/ Short] An unpopular supply teacher discovers that a neglected student he's trying to help is the son of his own long-lost identical twin. Confronted with his brother's tragic failure to raise the boy, he plans to make the ultimate substitution. #Sciptsky #FirstPageFriday
THE SUBSTITUTE
[Crime/ Short] 
Page one of THE SUBSTITUTE:

An unpopular supply teacher discovers that a neglected student he's trying to help is the son of his own long-lost identical twin. Realizing his brother is tragically failing the boy as a parent, he plans to make the ultimate substitution.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
With the Restoration (1660) Milton had his entire life dismantled. He went to prison, faced charges of treason (and death), had no work, few friends, and many of his works were burned. And he was completely blind. His daughter(s) wrote on his behalf. She writes it on discovering the rough outline.
Milton's daughter writing on for Milton, who was completely blind.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself" They really should be called Misanthropic.
Milton's extended quotation on the idea that "he who kills a good book kills reason itself"
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Got notes back from @phoenixblack.bsky.social on a recent draft. I can only say that they were both humbling & inspirational. Phoenix brings a depth of focus and clear understanding to her read that cuts to the essence of what needs work. & when she likes something, you know she means it. Tanx P!
A page I'll treasure with @phoenixblack.bsky.social note on the ending to SIX DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
ahem, ... Galaxie. Alas, nobody's prefect.
A Ford Galaxie 500 convertible at Mile Zero on the Trans Canada Highway and the Pacific Ocean.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Next time I'm going with the Old Spice Bay.
Old Bay as an antiperspirant.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Full disclosure, my first dog's name was Argus. Here he is as pup, from thirty years ago. Got him the first year I taught The Odyssey. The Argus scenes break my heart.
Argus as an 8 week old pup in 1996.  Best boy ever.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We finally have the evidence we need to prove that Austin Power's VW Bug Time Travel Device is real, baby.
Austin Powers' alter ego in London, 1981 long before Austin Powers was known to the rest of us.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Remember that one time, tho . . .
King Kong climbs the Empire State Building to get engaged; it didn't go well.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Einstein went to the US for ~3 months in 1930-31, specifically to go to Cal Tech. Einstein and his wife were the guests of honour at the premiere.
Albert Einstein, centre, a German physicist, stands with his wife Elsa Einstein, and Charles Chaplin, second right, as they arrive for the opening of Chaplin's silent movie, in Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 2, 1931.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Ms. Jackson felt much the same way, and would tell readers as much without saying so directly.
Shirley Jackson's response to a reader who doesn't like her writing: "If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree."
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Name a film with a title that is a full sentence.
The title frame from the film, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Nothing beats reading the classified ads from 98 years ago to realize that the film industry is always changing. Here are two ads from organists at the end of 1928, facing the elimination of their jobs with the introduction of sound. 28,000 such positions were eliminated.
two ads from organists at the end of 1928, facing the elimination of their jobs with the introduction of sound.   In their ads they specifically call out "Vitaphone" as the reason they're leaving their jobs.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Swap your prompt for my prompt that I came across today doing research, from 1914:
A newspaper article from 1914 about a grandson who must go to the Amazon to search for treasure in order to to collect what's to be given to him from his grandfather's will.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
CONTAINED HORROR A disgraced, former teen star evades jail by slipping into the home of an enigmatic director to discover he has a to-die-for role for her in his next project along with an unsound fixation on the girl she used to be. #FunPageFriday #Scriptsky
Poster /cover art for CONTAINED HORROR: depicts a freshly dug grave in an overhead shot with the words in red inside the grave: "CONTAINED HORROR."  Beneath this at the words "A screenplay by Anthony Campbell." Page 32 of CONTAINED HORROR
A disgraced, former teen star evades jail by slipping into the home of an enigmatic director to discover he has a to-die-for role for her in his next project along with an unsound fixation on the girl she used to be. Page 33 of CONTAINED HORROR
A disgraced, former teen star evades jail by slipping into the home of an enigmatic director to discover he has a to-die-for role for her in his next project along with an unsound fixation on the girl she used to be.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
THE TROUBLE WITH TRACY.
A moment from the title credits for THE TROUBLE WITH TRACY
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Two pages from HUMBAG where things start to heat up 36-37. When a young teacher inadvertently reveals to students that Santa isn't real, angry parents dox her & weaponize her past, to have her fired -- as a darker truth threatens to destroy far more than her career. #FirstPageFriday #ScriptSky
Page 36 from the feature script HUMBAG.  Inspired by real events (the scenes with the TV Anchor and On Location Reporter are verbatim from a real newscast. Page 37 from the feature script HUMBAG.  Inspired by real events (a vehicle was similarly spray painted, however the epithet was more offensive, though no more accurate in its spelling).
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We don’t usually see each other’s headers. Here’s mine. Quote post with yours.
The header for my Bluesky account, complete with a sleeping dingo laying on the sunniest bed in the house.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
#WIPWednesday #Scriptsky+ Having fun with action line edits of CONTAINED HORROR A disgraced, former teen star evades jail by slipping into the home of an enigmatic director to discover he has a to-die-for role for her in his next project along with an unsound fixation on the girl she used to be.
page 28 from CONTAINED HORROR where Chef brings a cleaver to a knife fight.Page 29 of CONTAINED HORROR where Chef brings a cleaver to a knife fight.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Star Wars in 2026 is like Steamboat Bill Jr. in 1977. Imagine if in the theatre next to Star Wars, Steamboat Bill XII was opening? One way to kill a thrill is to pack it in embalming fluid.
Lobby card for the classic 1928 comedy, Steamboat Bill Jr.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap
Sing Street makes their second smash music video.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
It's a common response that people seem to have who go on holiday with Tim.
Take only photos
Leave only footprints
Kill only Tim
This might be an idea for a new script!
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Did someone say Dingo?
Toby hears he's being called.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Pick a Bond from the photos you already have in your phone. Dingo Royale
The next James Bond should be a Dingo that can sniff out crime.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I have a similar script idea (in that my first version of the title used a famous person's name) then I used a fictitious name and that problem went away. Other problems arise, but that particular problem went away. Alternately, add a note?
Logline variation of SIX DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"Happiness is a Warm Gun." a/k/a "Get Big Dick."
An ad for children that may have inspired The Beatles in writing "Happiness is a Warm Gun."
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
However, feel free to thank AI for enhancing your Oscar-winning performance by getting your accent tickety-boo.
A man holding a little golden man who's holding a sword for some reason.
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
BREAKING: US Navy turns to AI firm Domino for options to counter Iranian mines ... and it's not going great ...
Image of the the big board in the game of MineSweeper
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Precisely my feelings . . . to a T.
a graph of the history of “To a T” in printed materials from 1820-2020
Trend of to a t in printed material over time
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AC @anthonyscripted.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Reminds me of a boy I know, sitting in my living room!
Dingo sitting on a chair, relaxing.
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