The Screenplay Writers
The Screenplay Writers
Ryan Abbott and Nathan Hare, Screenplay Writers
0020: Titles
16 minutes Posted Dec 5, 2017 at 3:55 pm.
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Wondering how to come up with a screenplay title that will get you a contract and lots of pop at the box office? Many listeners have privately asked us to cover this topic, so here it is.

Titles should convey what the screenplay is about. Great titles often incorporate a character’s name in a double-meaning sort of way. Nathan gives a new Hare’s Rule: Make your title something that sort of confuses people. The guys do script surgery on “Ratatouille.” In Logline Cage Match, Ryan pitches his logline for a title-driven screenplay idea, “Fine and Dandy."