Script of the Week: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil & Vile by Michael Werwie
This might sound like a cop out…, but there is no practical way to talk about Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil & Vile by Michael Werwie without spoiling it altogether, so I won’t. Other readers and reviewers have done so online, but I suggest that you stay clear from any site that reveals the story’s intricate details. It’s just that good. Werwie demonstrates his adeptness here with gusto. The script manipulates us expertly; it guides our hands through the experience, and when it fully reveals itself in the last three pages you won’t know what hit you, even if you suspect it all along.
The only problem I see here is that the film, its release, and its success depends on total secrecy. If you walk into a theater knowing what you are about to see, the illusion Werwie has created simply won’t work. That’s a tall order in today’s Hollywood.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil & Vile was 7th on the 2012 Black List and a Finalist of the 2012 Nichols Fellowship.
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