This whole series has been pretty amazing. It's one of those I'll have to comb through later when I have more time, but thanks a lot for putting this together. Just by glancing quickly, I know off the top of my head 5 have already been made (Crazy Stupid Love, Inception, The Sitter, Change-up, and Celeste and Jesse Forever).

dw, we will be doing a ton of analysis of the entire series once it's all been posted. I will solicit suggestions for data such as percentage of scripts to be produced, percentage of $1M scripts to be produced, trends in genre sales, number of first-time sales per year, and so on.

Thriller - 10 drama thriller - 1 teen thriller - 1 action thriller - 1 heist - 1 murder mystery - 1 drama - 4 comedy drama - 1 action drama - 1 comedy - 21 action comedy - 2 adventure comedy - 2 rom-com - 3 supernatural action - 1 supernatural thriller - 1 science fiction - 2 SF action - 5 SF thriller - 1 Action - 5 action horror - 1 family action - 1 action adventure - 1 dark fantasy - 1 Rule #1 has a n/a genre - sound drama, could spin in many directions... Good year for thrillers of all sorts, and science fiction of all sorts.

Interesting that Doc Holliday is described as 'action adventure', rather than 'western', which were presumably out of fashion at the time. A careful choice of genre to make the script sound more saleable?

Debbie, I believe this is the first year we started to see a significant uptick in thrillers. Let's keep track of that because by 2011, both they and action had overtaken comedy atop the genre list.

There's an interview with the writer of that script from 2010 at Scriptshadow. Here's the link: http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2010/04/interview-with-chad-st-john.html

There’s an interview with the writer of that script from 2010 at Scriptshadow. Here’s the link: http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2010/04/interview-with-chad-st-john.html

Cool, that should be informative.

Medieval sounds pretty badass. I am loving the uptick in thrillers, as I tend to write mostly in that genre... fingers crossed. I can't wait for the indepth analysis.

It's funny (or, perhaps, just sad if looked at in a different way) how thin of a line there apparently is between what certain industry professionals categorize as "thriller" versus "horror"; to me, titles such as "Elevator Men" and "Kristy" could just as easily be legitimately considered a part of the horror genre besides being labeled as thrillers, "dark thrillers," "psychological thrillers" or "supernatural thrillers."

Jason, you hit on a good point. Any of these genre designations are arbitrary. Plus stories are organic and oftentimes don't fit into this category or that. The best we can do is approximate for purposes of analysis and discussion.

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