Re: If you don't write it, someone else will...
Have you seen Tarantino's first film? It's called MY BEST FRIEND'S BIRTHDAY and it has no distributor.
QT makes his own films, and the scripts that he has sold (TRUE ROMANCE, NATURAL BORN KILLERS) were rewrites of Roger Avary originals. Now, I have no idea how many scripts he has written and not sold - how would anyone know that? I do know that he had a manager who was hustling his stuff for years before DOGS, and he fired her the minute that deal came together. What was she trying to sell before that?
Lucas also makes his own stuff - what script did he ever sell?
Pro writers do not sell every spec they write. Everyone I know has unsold specs. Just the way it is. You write ten specs to sell a few and maybe get one on screen.
The DIE HARD stuff seems way over the top to me for this decade. We're in BOURNE world. When I saw the new BATMAN movie, the rooftop car chase was cool... and in my action book published in 1998.
- Bill
Originally posted by reddery
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QT makes his own films, and the scripts that he has sold (TRUE ROMANCE, NATURAL BORN KILLERS) were rewrites of Roger Avary originals. Now, I have no idea how many scripts he has written and not sold - how would anyone know that? I do know that he had a manager who was hustling his stuff for years before DOGS, and he fired her the minute that deal came together. What was she trying to sell before that?
Lucas also makes his own stuff - what script did he ever sell?
Pro writers do not sell every spec they write. Everyone I know has unsold specs. Just the way it is. You write ten specs to sell a few and maybe get one on screen.
The DIE HARD stuff seems way over the top to me for this decade. We're in BOURNE world. When I saw the new BATMAN movie, the rooftop car chase was cool... and in my action book published in 1998.
- Bill
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