Re: Concept more important than story for spec writers?
To me it makes total sense that the studios would make films from board games. After all, it's not as if there are any good mystery novels out there with actual characters in them. Or novels about battle at sea, or novels about aliens, or novels about real estate. There is definitely a huge lack of material to draw from, so I can totally see why, faced with such a vacuum in Previously Established Intellectual Property, studio execs would choose to get out the board game. And on the way to that closet where they keep their dusty old inanimate board games, they are no doubt walking by a huge waste bin filled to the rim with original screenplays peopled with living characters who fight and hurt and love and kill and weep and suffer and scheme and triumph.
To me it makes total sense that the studios would make films from board games. After all, it's not as if there are any good mystery novels out there with actual characters in them. Or novels about battle at sea, or novels about aliens, or novels about real estate. There is definitely a huge lack of material to draw from, so I can totally see why, faced with such a vacuum in Previously Established Intellectual Property, studio execs would choose to get out the board game. And on the way to that closet where they keep their dusty old inanimate board games, they are no doubt walking by a huge waste bin filled to the rim with original screenplays peopled with living characters who fight and hurt and love and kill and weep and suffer and scheme and triumph.
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