Jordan Tate: Screenwriter, actor and author in New York City, New York.

great poster Sid!

It’s like I always say. Either they can’t help or they don’t want to. There’s no in-between Dan MaxXx

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CJ, you know you're doing something right when the establishment tries to ignore that SR exists! Viva la revolucion!

I live in Nigeria, Africa. Even I dream of getting into Hollywood. Even I. I stumbled on this because I am considering hosting a couple of screenplays I'm particularly proud of. Not to get connections or network but just to get feedback. I know how difficult it is for people close to the industry, so I don't have stars in my eyes. I have followed advice that a number of people have given. Shoot your own stuff. Shoot it cheap, shoot it constantly, and I have. Prepping my tenth film and in an industry that thrives on quantity rather than quality, I'm improving the quality of my films one film at a time. Screenwriting is my full time job. I feed my family on it. I dream of writing a million dollar screenplay but till that time, I'll give Script Revolution a try and get back to shooting. I think you should too.

Re: the repeating leads on InkTip; this merely means they have not yet found what they're looking for. I optioned a play on InkTip, and I do think they want mostly low-budget stuff but by looking at those repeating leads, you can get a sense of what's in demand and what's not being found.

Hello Jordan. Yeah? I'd love to create the Creature Character! Love to hear more about it.

I get you in some case, Laurie... Thanks for talking back.

Phil, the bottom line is, if you're trying to sell your script, and I assume you're a hell of a great writer, then it doesn't matter how many pages you have, because once you sell it, it now becomes the property of whoever bought it and they will do with it whatever they want, i.e. cut it down, wring it out, tighten it up, remove what they don't like, etc. And unless you have an iron clad contract, you may even find your script with some other writers name on it.

So, it doesn't matter if your script is 90, 100, 130 or a 140 pages. What matters is if you can grab the reader on page one and prolong that grab to the end of the script.

I find most people have different guidelines for what they accept I haven’t looked at Stage 32’s yet though. The only thing I would say is look at you format your font and text size. If not done right your script could take up more pages than needed. I know a lot of people who make the text size much bigger than realistically needed or required by the company reading the script. You’ve probably done it fine but I just thought I’d mention it.

I'd go with option 2. Simply because it will give the audience more clarity on all 3 of the people who are guarding the professor's mind. It will be so much more satisfying to see it all play out without jumping back and forth in the story. Also keeping in mind that there are already 3 teams, 3 different settings and narratives, keeping it tidy might be better.

But I do like the idea of being more creative in the structure and exploring option 1 and 3. It's just difficult to endorse them at the moment because you haven't explained them fully.

For what it's worth, I like doomsday movies with a medical twist. In fact, the sample script I want to send you is a medical thriller. What attracted me most about this project was the fact that it's character driven. The President, The Monk and A Prisoner, it's pure genius. And the fact that the professor's mind is split into 3 characters dilutes the sci-fi element of his mind being some kind of out of body super computer like Lucy (starring Scarlett Johansson). Even in your post it is clear that you're not writing a sci-fi because you communicate well.

I sent you a network request and a message, please let me know a suitable way you'd like to chat.

Ally Shina Thanks. Great input. The marketing side of the story needs to be addressed. In order to make it a collaterable asset deal this needs to address somebody bigger than one network - I'd say, HBO, well, they're too lazy these days, nothing worth watching since THE NIGHT OF, to be honest, other networks copy-pasting the reality shift, well, not that interesting anymore, COUNTERPART (they did a good job in season 1 - then, well, it's a "6 feet under again" project - and definitely it's not rednecks doing the monster zombie thing, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, they just need more steam. I predict Alphabet, Facebook jumping into movies full-throttle one day, but not on this project. They're too young to make sober decisions. The executives that run the floor right now are not there yet, we need an executive who's gonna be hungry in 10 years. This show can easily go beyond 80M+ an episode, just payroll.

Jay, I think you're being just a little too hard on the networks here. HBO has since The Night Of made Game Of Thrones which is Game of Thrones, I need not express how huge the show was, huge in every aspects of the word.