How many pages does it take to write explosions, or a gun battle or Kung Fu fight? Just curious I never write any of that. I have my own ideas about writing and what it takes to create a script or a novel.
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It really depends on how important it is to you to keep the page count down on your script - sad as that may seem. My wife works as a Prod. Mgr. and her and the ADs will curse when they see a big block of description, describing a complicated action scene that comprises a page or more of screen time. Keep in mind, generally a page is a minute of screen time. If you have one or two sentences like "Bob takes off in a car chase that leads the cops over half of Los Angeles", clearly you're cheating a bit. One thing I keep in mind, but I never hear discussed is, if a page is a minute and the old line count of a page used to be 60, then every line is a second. Something to keep in mind. Having said all that, if you break out a big action scene line by line and now it takes up three pages, a producer is going to tell you to collapse it a bit.