What to Do With Your Spec Script in a Catch-22 Situation

Found this on Rachel Miller’s blog.  Rachel Miller is a Manager at Tom Sawyer Ent.

Wow, there always seem to be some "new" catch when trying to get your script sold.

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What to Do With Your Spec Script in a Catch-22 Situation


From Rachel Miller’s blog

Rachel Miller is a Manager at Tom Sawyer Ent.


There is some good news in the Hollywood world. Studios are buying specs again — not a lot — but still it is better than nothing.

However, if you read what is selling you know that almost everything has an attachment before a studio buys it — either a big producer, director or actor.

I was discussing this with an executive who at least admitted that, yes, pre-attaching an element that every studio approves is nearly impossible. Especially since there are maybe five people every studio will agree to. So this is definitely a Catch-22 situation.

But the exec did have some good advice: If you can attach an element that’s sexy, sometimes that’s enough — the element doesn’t actually have to star or direct in the film — they can just be attached in some producorial capacity.

For example, if it is a producer/actor or a producer/director, if the person is a big-enough name, that is enough to get the studio interested. Or, if you can say that a big-enough name has expressed interest, that also can work as well.

In other words, try to think of some creative ways around your catch 22 to get where you need to go. After all, if you don’t find a way around your catch 22, your spec script may never be bought.

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