Re: Franklin Leonard
I can't even get my friends to agree on how we feel about Toy Story 4.
Why would you expect different readers not to react differently to scripts? It's all opinion. It's all timing. It's about getting the right spec in front of the right person at the right random time when they didn't just have a huge fight with their ex on the phone or getting yelled at by their boss or just got the flu.
If this was the movie Yesterday where people forget about The Beatles music except one person and no one had every heard for great 80s movies except you and you could "write" Beverly Hills Cop and Die Hard for the first time -- they probably wouldn't sell in your hands. Times have changed for one. But even if you wrote the hottest spec that just sold last month and went out with it to same buyers, it still may not sell with same set of readers and buyers. It's talent meets random luck!
That's why in some thread I suggested maybe other forms of writing like novel writing would be slightly more fulfilling in that you have a finished product to sell. I'm sure it's just as hard in same and different ways but it seems slightly better on the sales side. Maybe just because I see 100 specs sell a year and some stats say there are over a million books put out a year -- let's half that for self published people and you still have 500,000 books sold to 100 specs sold and now I dont' know why any of us try at all.
I can't even get my friends to agree on how we feel about Toy Story 4.
Why would you expect different readers not to react differently to scripts? It's all opinion. It's all timing. It's about getting the right spec in front of the right person at the right random time when they didn't just have a huge fight with their ex on the phone or getting yelled at by their boss or just got the flu.
If this was the movie Yesterday where people forget about The Beatles music except one person and no one had every heard for great 80s movies except you and you could "write" Beverly Hills Cop and Die Hard for the first time -- they probably wouldn't sell in your hands. Times have changed for one. But even if you wrote the hottest spec that just sold last month and went out with it to same buyers, it still may not sell with same set of readers and buyers. It's talent meets random luck!
That's why in some thread I suggested maybe other forms of writing like novel writing would be slightly more fulfilling in that you have a finished product to sell. I'm sure it's just as hard in same and different ways but it seems slightly better on the sales side. Maybe just because I see 100 specs sell a year and some stats say there are over a million books put out a year -- let's half that for self published people and you still have 500,000 books sold to 100 specs sold and now I dont' know why any of us try at all.
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