Hey all – I have a question about WGA credit.
I just finished an assignment. I was screenwriter #5. It is an infamous project and none of the previous writers managed to deliver. Amazingly I nailed it and my version is structurally, tonally, stylistically completely different from the others.
The story is based on a true story and there have been several books written about it. I basically just took as much from various sources as I could.
I can confidently say that this is my screenplay and that there isn’t a single word taken from the other versions. However I hear different things being thrown around by my writer friends such as “the first writer will get credit no matter what“. I was even told to put the previous writers names on the title page of my draft.
Assuming the movie gets made I feel that it would be absurd if one of the other writers got credit for my work just because they tried and failed to crack the story a decade ago.
So am I in for a nasty surprise?
I just finished an assignment. I was screenwriter #5. It is an infamous project and none of the previous writers managed to deliver. Amazingly I nailed it and my version is structurally, tonally, stylistically completely different from the others.
The story is based on a true story and there have been several books written about it. I basically just took as much from various sources as I could.
I can confidently say that this is my screenplay and that there isn’t a single word taken from the other versions. However I hear different things being thrown around by my writer friends such as “the first writer will get credit no matter what“. I was even told to put the previous writers names on the title page of my draft.
Assuming the movie gets made I feel that it would be absurd if one of the other writers got credit for my work just because they tried and failed to crack the story a decade ago.
So am I in for a nasty surprise?
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