Hi there! I've just completed the first draft of a multi-stranded thriller and now I have to pitch it to some producers. I feel confident about pitching a traditional storytelling project, but what happens when you have a multi-stranded narrative? I was mulling over: maybe you should pitch the theme, which is the core that keeps all the strands together (as racial and social tensions do in "Crash"). But what if the theme is less blatant like in "Pulp Fiction"? How do you tackle it? How would you pitch, for instance, films like "Pulp Fiction" or "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"? Thoughts?
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Pitching a multi-stranded film
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It's funny - Every "Screenwriting guru" I've come across, all said the same thing "Never write a multi-strand". My reply, someone has too.
I've yet to be able to pitch any of my work.
Have you considered pitching the characters or their goals? If it's a really hard to achieve goal a producer might be interested (?)
Hi there, I love thriller movies, i'm a Bristol based actress. Please get in touch if you require cast for your film.
Hi Pedro, the whole point here is pitching the movie as a whole, giving the sense of what the movies is about. If I pitch every single strand as though it was a single movie I'll end up with 4 different pitches stuck clumsily together.