However, these essential ideas will resonate much louder when following some of the genre’s key beats. Therefore, thinking outside the box in terms of your essential ideas going to be key. The wealth of murder mysteries out there will mean that making your murder mystery script unique and able to stand out from a dense crowd will be difficult. It’s almost beyond just a movie genre and instead, a cultural sub-genre in its own right.
The murder mystery reaches across more than TV shows and films, with novels and dinner party games being a big part of the sub-genre. Yet there are also essential beats to hit. And the genre is so familiar and popular there are many tropes to avoid.
Far from it.īeing able to draw the audience into the murder mystery and allowing them to feel immersed in the plot is tricky. This isn’t to say that writing a murder mystery script, let alone a good one, is easy. There is a timeless formula to writing a murder mystery that shows no sign of waning in popularity.
