This is turning into a good year.
I have been contacted by a Producer about going forward with one of my specs. He wants to meet next week to discuss "terms".
This is non-union feature where I will also do any rewrites needed. I don't have an agent or attorney to bounce ideas off of, so I fear that I will have to go into this meeting and negotiate on my own. Then with a contract in hand I can approach an attorney who would see that I have something serious to be looked over.
So, this is what I was thinking about asking for.
1. Sole writing credit.
2. I do all rewrites.
3. They have not told me what budget they are thinking about, but I know what I wrote and I would be surprised if it can be done for less than 1 million. So I want guild minium, but if I can't get that to take $10k and the rest deferred and with back end points (but that I would be on equal footing as the producers, so for ever dollar he makes I get paid at the same time.)
4. No idea hw to talk about sequels and all the things an attorney would know about.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I have been contacted by a Producer about going forward with one of my specs. He wants to meet next week to discuss "terms".
This is non-union feature where I will also do any rewrites needed. I don't have an agent or attorney to bounce ideas off of, so I fear that I will have to go into this meeting and negotiate on my own. Then with a contract in hand I can approach an attorney who would see that I have something serious to be looked over.
So, this is what I was thinking about asking for.
1. Sole writing credit.
2. I do all rewrites.
3. They have not told me what budget they are thinking about, but I know what I wrote and I would be surprised if it can be done for less than 1 million. So I want guild minium, but if I can't get that to take $10k and the rest deferred and with back end points (but that I would be on equal footing as the producers, so for ever dollar he makes I get paid at the same time.)
4. No idea hw to talk about sequels and all the things an attorney would know about.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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