Lucy Hay

Instead I focus on the two elements most likely to sell your thriller screenplay ‘off the page’: story and character.

there are no ‘rules’!

There is only hard work to do in making your script the best it can be, and even MORE work in getting it to the screen. There are no easy answers, no quick fixes and no limp promises.

produced content and the spec pile.

Story is king (or queen), so bar the odd actor who has become a brand in (usually) his own right, I refer to the characters in the various thrillers I mention by their own names, not by the actors who play them.

concentrates on the Hollywood model of the thriller genre, so the majority of films I discuss are British and American.

If I want to read, I’ll read a book… And if I’m watching a film, it’s because I don’t want to read a ****ing book!…’

…Okay it was me. But then you knew that, right?