Originally posted by JeffLowell
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Also I don't count the indie films to me that's a different animal entirely than selling a spec work on it's own. Napoloen Dynamite is an almost impossible sell as a spec on paper, but with a short film and a feature spec easier. And of course that's what they used to raise money to make it...
Juno had a great voice of course -- but to me that's a concept people will read. Especially during that time, Knocked Up was a hit, so why not another one...
Also this -- Diablo Cody was first approached to write a screenplay by film producer Mason Novick, who had previously landed her a book deal for her memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, after discovering her blog about stripping.[21] He persuaded her to adapt the book for the screen, but suggested that she first write a screenwriting sample to show studios; that sample became Juno.[21
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