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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨

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Co-writer 2004 #Hellboy movie @WGAWest Screenwriter 🎥 • TV writer 📺 (Rep: Dench Agency UK) Amazon #1 best-selling novelist 🖊️ • Comic books @ScriptreaderPro Consultant Direct: https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm1486009/?rf=cons_nm_contact&ref_=nm_pub_upslb_lo

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hi, #Scriptsky. I'm Peter Briggs: I sold my first spec to Fox in '92. I'm credited co-writer on the 2004 movie "Hellboy"; past 30 years I've been hired-by or sold specs to all the major studios.

My side hustle: I provide consultancy to emerging screenwriters serious about their craft. Links above!

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1h

Well, there's good lines. But I found it troubling, for obvious reasons. (And overrated). It's the first time I'd watched it all the way through. It's a strangely angry film.

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1h

Taking a brief pause in my Robert Redford rewatch to watch Diane Keaton. Last night - "Manhattan." She's not really foremost in this one, and it's a very different, cynical performance.

I ended up going down a Google rabbithole to understand the 17 year old age of consent in New York. #filmsky

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1h

Scribblequinn's Inktober Day 11: "Shredded"

#inktober2025 #inktober #illustration #artwork #ink #drawing #cartoons #inktoberday12

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1h

Scribblequinn's crew skirt Ray Harryhausen's "Mysterious Island" on Inktober Day 11: "Sting"

#inktober2025 #inktober #illustration #artwork #ink #drawing #cartoons #inktoberday11

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1h

Scribblequinn's cartoon crew have a brush with destiny on Inktober Day 10: "Sweep"

#inktober2025 #inktober #illustration #artwork #ink #drawing #cartoons #inktoberday10

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1h

More Scribblequinn Inktober Day 9 stuff: the theme is "Heavy"

#inktober2025 #inktober #illustration #artwork #ink #drawing #cartoons #inktoberheavy

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 2h

P.S.: a shameful period in my TV watching is I saw every episode (755!??) of the frankly-insane "Sunset Beach", which gave me the biggest crush on Sarah Buxton (although I was dating a girl who was a 6'3" version of Susan Ward at the time)

BTW: Jason Winston George was a hangout buddy years ago!

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 2h

Bruce, you contributed to saving my life after my first big girlfriend breakup back in the 80s, and for that I'll be eternally grateful.

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 5h

The universal constants.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 14h

Wait until you get to courgettes and zucchini. It's wild!

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 16h

Dude...the hell with "lapsed": YOU WROTE ONE OF MY FAVOURITE EPISODES OF MOONLIGHTING!!!

"The smell of an armpit...the roar of the crowd...is this a great moment in sports, or what!"

"Magic and mirth? Thrills and spills? Love and laughter?"

"You de-Daved him!"

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 19h

Fun from the set of "Mars Attacks!" (Probably my favourite Burton movie.) #filmsky

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 20h

"The production company passed."

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 20h

Both Godzilla Minus Ones are very different. I don't have a preference in that...but the Japanese hero kid at least comes across as less screechy and annoying in the dub.

I felt sorry for that "Mothra" audience. The kids wanted fun, and couldn't manage the text and the speed. I preferred the dub.

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 21h

Still doing my Redford Memorium Watch, and...Diane Keaton dies. So, had to put a pause in to rewatch "Annie Hall", and remember why Annie is like the infuriating but adorable girlfriend you hope you get (at least at the beginning.)

Lots of great lines from before Woody Allen's cancelled.

La De Da.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 21h

This is the craziest mod done to this phaser. (Kids, don't try this at home. Or do. Maybe.)

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Star Trek Phaser - REAL!

YouTube video by Fossil Bluff

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 21h

That's genius.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 21h

And there's a LOT of upgrade kits and instructions out there to make them more screen accurate. Of course...that costs extra moolah.

Also, remember the Diamond Select/Art Asylum phasers "are screen accurate"...sorta. Because they were used by Scott Bakula in "A Mirror Darkly"!

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 22h

I much prefer English dubs of a lot of these, although Dialog's occasionally better in the Japanese version.

I saw "Mothra" at an outside Barbican screening in London. Lot of young, excited kids...who got bored when they realised they had to read subtitles. Stupid mistake on the organisers' part.

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 23h

At the time (it was the early 1970s, and I was a kid), probably not. But I've got both versions since.

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 23h

That was it!

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1d

"And it was...you know. It was good. We've got some notes..."

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1d

What was your description of her eyes you made once that I liked so much, @mikduffy.bsky.social?

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1d

That was what I was worried about with Fox. But, honestly, I've been fine with the Fox (sorry: "20th Century") Disney output. I like Disney having (basically) a Touchstone/Hollywood Pictures outlet for adult I.P.. I just wish they'd up the output frequency outside of the "legacy franchises".

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 1d

Legend.