Re: A good script vs. a sellable script
I'm actually a terrible person to ask anything about thrillers, because I believe they are 100% contingent on plausibility to 'work' effectively, and I know I am in the minority in this opinion (for example, both Minority Report and Prisoners are above 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, yet I believe they are among the worst thrillers ever written).
Then again, there is a reason you don't see that many novels by Patricia Cornwell and James Patterson and Dean Koontz adapted into films. They are implausible to the point of being laughable.
But I will say this, the early 1990's was a great time for thrillers, with Silence Of The Lambs and The Fugitive deservedly being nominated for Best Picture Oscars.
In The Line Of Fire was probably the best one that came from a spec.
I'm actually a terrible person to ask anything about thrillers, because I believe they are 100% contingent on plausibility to 'work' effectively, and I know I am in the minority in this opinion (for example, both Minority Report and Prisoners are above 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, yet I believe they are among the worst thrillers ever written).
Then again, there is a reason you don't see that many novels by Patricia Cornwell and James Patterson and Dean Koontz adapted into films. They are implausible to the point of being laughable.
But I will say this, the early 1990's was a great time for thrillers, with Silence Of The Lambs and The Fugitive deservedly being nominated for Best Picture Oscars.
In The Line Of Fire was probably the best one that came from a spec.
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