![]() ![]() You have to trust yourself, she assures Allie, and leaves.Ĭut to 2 years later and Allie has become the leader Jammer knew she could be. But Jammer assures her that she didn’t think she was ready either. Jammer secured one of those impossible-to-get train tickets for herself which will allow her to travel to other cities where humans still thrive. Jammer is explaining to 16-year-old Allie that she, now, is in charge of the rats. Most of the populace is made up of robots and creatures, the latter of which came about via too much DNA splicing. But hundreds of years have passed and there are only a scant number of humans remaining. Part of a small crew of teenage girls who lives in a domed city that was once inhabited by humans. And you’re probably looking up at that logline and thinking, “Really, Carson? That logline resulted in a great script?” Yes it did.ġ8-year-old Jammer is a street rat. But he picked a weird script that’s actually awesome. Well, I can finally tell you that Nicholl, that old rascally devil, got it right. The “weird” winner always feels too messy or too raw. They reluctantly celebrate one of those scripts a year mainly because they don’t want to be labeled as the contest that only likes Manchester by the Sea scripts.Įven then, they usually blow it. I remember one winning screenplay that was told in all first person. However, they usually reserve one selection every year for something offbeat. Stories centered around far off places and distant times. The general consensus is that Nicholl celebrates a few common things. From there, you get to do a little reconnaissance action for next year’s competition. ![]() I mean how are you supposed to improve if you can’t study what made the winners better? It made the contest feel elusive and, at times, pointless.įlash forward to today and you can usually find the winning scripts if you’re resourceful. One of the most frustrating things about the Nicholl back in the day was that when you didn’t advance, there was no way to read the scripts that beat you. But will she be able to leave her fellow “rats” who must now fend for themselves?Ībout: This script was one of the five winners of the 2019 Nicholl Screenplay Contest. Premise: An 18-year-old skateboarding “rat” named Allie finally gets her chance to leave the garbage dangerous futuristic city she’s grown up in. Today’s script is the best Nicholl winning script I’ve ever read. ![]()
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