This is a brief excerpt from NoFilmSchool
Many of us here on NFS will write screenplays for our own films that we plan to make ourselves. That said, it’s always good to know which scripts are selling in the marketplace: 1) to know what movies may be coming to a theatre near you soon so your script is different (or better); 2) to know the styles and genres of scripts that studios and financiers are buying should you want to sell your own spec; and 3) to know who represents and manages writers of scripts like your own to help you find representation. To shed some light on the spec script market, Scott Myers at Go Into The Story has been running a weekly series on this very topic, covering the history of the spec script market, the buyers of spec scripts, the spec screenwriter-representation relationship and more.
For those of you who may not know, a spec script is a screenplay that a writer writes without a paid writing assignment.
Each Thursday, Scott Myers at GITS has rolled out another installment of “The Business of Screenwriting: Everything You Wanted to Know About Specs” series, now up to seven parts. I found “Part 6: Rolling Out a New Writer’s …
By: Christopher Boone
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