Screenwriting : Writer needed by Jim Young

are you wanting to direct your idea?

are you looking to Pay a writer?

looking to pay if it goes anywhere

So the writer writes your idea and doesn't get paid unless it "goes somewhere"? Not sure you are going to find any takers. Have you considered optioning an existing screenplay ?

dont even know what optioning an existing screenplay means.

Hey Jim, there's actually a webinar all about option agreements I think you'll find it super helpful: https://www.stage32.com/webinars/Option-Agreements-Everything-You-Always...

Don't want to seem like a downer on this, but I think you need to learn how the film business works before looking for screenwriter-collaborators -- unless you're sitting on a ton of cash to support your being an executive producer and then hiring all the knowledge you need. (A gentle suggestion: Don't ask screenwriters to work for free. They do more than enough of that for themselves.) A good start is to spend a lot of time reading through the discussions in the Film section of the Stage 32 Lounge, especially those focusing on production.

Could you please provide me with more info? Thanks, Ilana.

great idea for a film but need someone to put it on paper

If you've got about 15-20K, I'm happy to help!

Hi, I don't have much professional experience, but if it's the right story I'll write it for you. I really don't care about the money, just enthusiastic to be involved if youd like to tell me some more about your idea. Kind Regards Sam

Just a little side story: A producer I have worked with in the past called me in for a meeting a few years back and said he had a great connection with Sony Home Ent and they were looking to do sequels to semi hit films like SWAT as DVD originals. Could I come up with some stuff for him to take in there? Oh, and SWAT and most of the good stuff had already been taken. So I went to my DVD shelf and pulled off anything that had the Sony or Columbia logo and excluded anything with a theatrical sequel in the works and also anything so high profile that someone else probably already had pitched it. I was left with a bunch of interesting semi hits plus some hits from the previous decade or two which hadn't spawned sequels. I decided what I needed was a great new high concept plus the concept of the original movie, in the event these didn't fly at Sony the new high concept might make them work elsewhere. I came up with about five ideas for each of the films, then picked the 1 to 3 best and fleshed them out into half page pitches. I ended up with over 80 of them. Some of the new high concepts were really good. I met with the producer again, gave him my 80 plus pitches, and returned to screenwriting previously in progress. The producer called me a couple of days later to tell me I was an idea machine and half of these pitches he could take to the theatrical side of Sony... if he only had a contact there. I suggested he encourage his Home Ent guy to take them in for him. A couple of weeks later we had that wonderful economy crash and Home Ent at Sony and everywhere else was pretty much out of business. Those 80 plus ideas got put on a shelf... But another producer called, and they had a lead on financing for a string of family films, could I come up with maybe 10 to 20 great ideas to pitch them? Sure! So I came up with 18 really great family film ideas, including several high concept things similar to HONEY I SHRUNK THE KID or NARNIA or HARRY POTTER (but nothing like any of those, these were original high concept ideas not rip offs of someone else's idea). And met with the producer and gave him the list. That one fell apart, too. So those 18 went on the shelf... except for one that I loved and wrote and sold a couple of months ago. Moral of the story: a screenwriter has a bunch of great ideas for movies... so they aren't really looking for them and don't have any reason to "steal" them, and have no reason to write someone else's idea unless they are being paid.

dear Jim...what will help you the most is to write it...yes sit down and write it...go head experience the reality of the work...and what it takes to FINISH not Pitch ...but to do the work...and I hope you find the courage and isnpiration to JUST DO IT ...like Nike Blessings

Idea: Pitch: "A little boy lost his mom at birth and his dad got killed in front of him at the age of six doing a home robbery. The boy got away and ended up having to live the life of growing up on his own as he faces the nightmares of his dad killers that haunts him. He fight hard to live and strongly keeps his eyes open for the two guys that murdered his dad." ~Revenge was his #1 priority~ Got plenty of Ideas stored behind my eyeballs--That's my brain you know..

So you want something for nothing....