You’re busy, right? You’ve got a lot on your plate. So if you had to choose, would you rather read a 90 page script or check out a full colour comic book?<\/p>\n
Exactly.<\/p>\n
I’ve got a lot of irons in the fire these days. That’s writer-speak for having a lot of scripts lying in a lot of inboxes waiting on a lot of producers (assistants) to do the unspeakable and actually read an original story.<\/p>\n
And that’s all well and good. But I’m not a wait by the phone type of guy. I like to actually do things. Create things. New things. But after a while – a dozen screenplays in three years or so, as it turns out – you kind of get tired of pushing the same boulder up the same hill. And after pushing the most recent boulder up the most recent hill I sort of got to thinking; maybe I’ll try something different. Maybe I’ll experiment a little.<\/p>\n
Now a screenplay is a screenplay. You can’t really mess with the format. It’s the blueprint to make a film. But what good is that little blueprint if it’s sitting in some inbox somewhere being avoided by a neophobic executive? Short of it being an adaptation that brings with it a built-in track record, there’s nothing that sets one screenplay apart from the next, except the pitch.<\/p>\n