Re: Managers and Development
I don't really see extended pitches and free rewrites on paid assignments, as being the same as unpaid assignments. Not that any of it is desirable, but I can't imagine established pros writing up someone's script for free.
Unpaid means write an entire script, or rewrite someone else's script in its entirety, for no money, unless it sells. There's nothing professional about it. That's pure exploitation. And any manager who participates in that is not managing the situation.
They're cuckoo birds who have dropped an egg in someone else's nest, and they simply don't care, because for them it will either pay off or it won't, they're not the ones doing the work, and in orchestrating this they demonstrate that they have absolutely no regard for the well-being of the writer.
And if they don't have any regard for the writer, they shouldn't be let loose to manage them.
Originally posted by jtwg50
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Unpaid means write an entire script, or rewrite someone else's script in its entirety, for no money, unless it sells. There's nothing professional about it. That's pure exploitation. And any manager who participates in that is not managing the situation.
They're cuckoo birds who have dropped an egg in someone else's nest, and they simply don't care, because for them it will either pay off or it won't, they're not the ones doing the work, and in orchestrating this they demonstrate that they have absolutely no regard for the well-being of the writer.
And if they don't have any regard for the writer, they shouldn't be let loose to manage them.
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