I read this while lurking and it gave me a [dumb] idea…
First off: I generally despise any "contesty" type "readery" stuff. But…
I thought, "hey, may be the right environment for an old script I dig that is wrong for Hollywood. I didn't know foreign markets were potentially checking this stuff out."
I have a script that my rep can't go out with. It's gritty and dark, too gritty and dark for Hollywood. Although, oddly, it landed well with taste-makers. Meaning a bunch of general meetings "we like your writing, cool script, but we can't make this sh*t." A manager at Anonymous Content tried to, briefly, get it set up overseas. Problem is, I wouldn't want my real name on it and I wouldn't want anyone I'm dealing with now to know I put some old script up on some website. Kind of interferes with their game plan for me [1) I don't need my name/script getting dinged by some anonymous reader when tastemakers already gave it the thumbs up. I took that brand of script as far as one could hope to go within the constraints of Hollywood. 2) My reps surely want this script to remain dead and buried "you only write big commercial sh*t now, GOT IT!"]. Script is a few years old, but optioning it to some foreign off-grid outfit sounds interesting -- in fact that's the market I wrote it for, never meant for it to go out in Hollywood, that was their call -- strangely I have no avenue to them, being repped by the Hollywood machine.
Direct it yourself: The only way I'd get to direct this myself, or want to, is if I'd won that super lotto jackpot. I would have turned around and spent my own money (10 mil) to direct this thing as a vanity project.
Back to topic: Or is BlackList a bunch'a nonsense I shouldn't concern myself with. I met Franklin several years back at an event, seemed like a good dude, but that says nothing for the website's legitimacy. The hole thing, what little I know of it, strikes me as a bit of a fluff.
…Or should I just leave the script dead on the shelf?
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I thought, "hey, may be the right environment for an old script I dig that is wrong for Hollywood. I didn't know foreign markets were potentially checking this stuff out."
I have a script that my rep can't go out with. It's gritty and dark, too gritty and dark for Hollywood. Although, oddly, it landed well with taste-makers. Meaning a bunch of general meetings "we like your writing, cool script, but we can't make this sh*t." A manager at Anonymous Content tried to, briefly, get it set up overseas. Problem is, I wouldn't want my real name on it and I wouldn't want anyone I'm dealing with now to know I put some old script up on some website. Kind of interferes with their game plan for me [1) I don't need my name/script getting dinged by some anonymous reader when tastemakers already gave it the thumbs up. I took that brand of script as far as one could hope to go within the constraints of Hollywood. 2) My reps surely want this script to remain dead and buried "you only write big commercial sh*t now, GOT IT!"]. Script is a few years old, but optioning it to some foreign off-grid outfit sounds interesting -- in fact that's the market I wrote it for, never meant for it to go out in Hollywood, that was their call -- strangely I have no avenue to them, being repped by the Hollywood machine.
Direct it yourself: The only way I'd get to direct this myself, or want to, is if I'd won that super lotto jackpot. I would have turned around and spent my own money (10 mil) to direct this thing as a vanity project.
Back to topic: Or is BlackList a bunch'a nonsense I shouldn't concern myself with. I met Franklin several years back at an event, seemed like a good dude, but that says nothing for the website's legitimacy. The hole thing, what little I know of it, strikes me as a bit of a fluff.
…Or should I just leave the script dead on the shelf?
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