Re: Black List founder Franklin Leonard answers your questions about the Black List
My wife pointed out what someone (Jeff I think?) said above, that maybe the bar is just higher. Sure, maybe. But something just doesn't seem right, and having listened to the ScriptNotes podcast where this is discussed, I wonder... Part of why people either (a) pay readers more or (b) have them right full coverage/ indepth notes is that they are then ensured to at least pretend to read the full script - are these readers doing so? We don't know.
THEN AGAIN he also said out of 240 or so readers they narrowed it down to 40 - right? So maybe these readers are just amazing and used to reading some super-high quality material. That may be it, perhaps, but the stories we've read here don't seem to point that direction...
I hope it's the latter? But if it's not, either the Blcklst is going to have to revamp soon or everyone will catch on... OR we will see another Amazon Studios, where some stupid-junk scripts (Sorry if you are on here and you won - no offense, but really, your scripts weren't good) won and now everyone knows Amazon Studios was a joke. (BTW - I heard they partnered with the WGA now and may not be as big a joke for long?)
My wife pointed out what someone (Jeff I think?) said above, that maybe the bar is just higher. Sure, maybe. But something just doesn't seem right, and having listened to the ScriptNotes podcast where this is discussed, I wonder... Part of why people either (a) pay readers more or (b) have them right full coverage/ indepth notes is that they are then ensured to at least pretend to read the full script - are these readers doing so? We don't know.
THEN AGAIN he also said out of 240 or so readers they narrowed it down to 40 - right? So maybe these readers are just amazing and used to reading some super-high quality material. That may be it, perhaps, but the stories we've read here don't seem to point that direction...
I hope it's the latter? But if it's not, either the Blcklst is going to have to revamp soon or everyone will catch on... OR we will see another Amazon Studios, where some stupid-junk scripts (Sorry if you are on here and you won - no offense, but really, your scripts weren't good) won and now everyone knows Amazon Studios was a joke. (BTW - I heard they partnered with the WGA now and may not be as big a joke for long?)
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