Hi all, I've got a question for the community:
A while back I wrote a pilot, but was barely beaten to the market by a nearly identical project. Dismayed at being a week late, I put my pilot on the shelf. But I believe my version is still a strong sample, and I'm wondering if I should put it back in my portfolio. If I do, I'm not sure how to clear up any potential confusion between my pilot and the show that's now airing. Since the two projects cover the exact same ground, share the exact same storytelling approach, and even have the same title, I'm not sure how to put my version out there without it seeming like a spec episode, or worse yet, some kind of derivative fan fiction. I can always offer an explanation when I send the script out myself, but if the script makes its way into the wild, it's bound to cause some confusion. Would it be wise to add some kind of note to the title page? It's not Chernobyl, but for the sake of argument should I do something like:
A while back I wrote a pilot, but was barely beaten to the market by a nearly identical project. Dismayed at being a week late, I put my pilot on the shelf. But I believe my version is still a strong sample, and I'm wondering if I should put it back in my portfolio. If I do, I'm not sure how to clear up any potential confusion between my pilot and the show that's now airing. Since the two projects cover the exact same ground, share the exact same storytelling approach, and even have the same title, I'm not sure how to put my version out there without it seeming like a spec episode, or worse yet, some kind of derivative fan fiction. I can always offer an explanation when I send the script out myself, but if the script makes its way into the wild, it's bound to cause some confusion. Would it be wise to add some kind of note to the title page? It's not Chernobyl, but for the sake of argument should I do something like:
CHERNOBYL
an original pilot
by
Cheese
(Not to be confused with the Craig Mazin project of the same name currently airing on HBO.
This sample was conceived of and written completely independently of the Mazin project.
Any similarities between the two are coincidental - expected even, considering the specifics of the subject matter.)
Thoughts?
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