Hello everyone. So, for the last three months or so, I've been developing an idea in my ScreenwritingU class about a gun rights lobbyist who switches sides. Yesterday, I saw the trailer for Miss Sloane, starring Jessica Chastain, about a gun lobbyist... who switches sides. Apparently, there's also a...
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Bill, great point about the second big idea -- I do have a secondary aspect of my story that's still unique. And I like all the points about keeping going to get another piece in my portfolio, too. I...
Expand commentBill, great point about the second big idea -- I do have a secondary aspect of my story that's still unique. And I like all the points about keeping going to get another piece in my portfolio, too. I guess the journalist in me was worried about getting "scooped." Thanks everyone for the encouragement to carry on.
No disrespect intended, Joe, but that sounds like a tough sell in the way that you explained it - another story about a "gun-rights lobbyist who switches sides." In that setting...Washington, D.C........
Expand commentNo disrespect intended, Joe, but that sounds like a tough sell in the way that you explained it - another story about a "gun-rights lobbyist who switches sides." In that setting...Washington, D.C.....high-powered lobbying.....yadda-yadda.....it just sounds like too much of the same thing, unless your story isn't so D.C.-centric. Kudos to Jonathan Perera, screenwriter of Miss Sloane. Evidently it was his first script; it was inspired by a documentary that Mr. Perera saw about lobbyist extraordinaire-until-he-went-to-jail Jack Abramoff (great film about him, too, besides the documentary); and it was on The Black List just last year. That was a quick turnaround. I hope Miss Sloane does well, even though it has such a limited prospective audience and the reviews have been pretty mixed. And MAJOR KUDOS to you, Joe - your documentary, The Last Descent, KIIIIICKSSSSS IT! Great job!
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Bill, Thanks so much for the forthright commentary. I agree, there are a lot of challenges with it to begin with, the limited marketability included. But I'd like to hope I've got something that's a l...
Expand commentBill, Thanks so much for the forthright commentary. I agree, there are a lot of challenges with it to begin with, the limited marketability included. But I'd like to hope I've got something that's a little different, too. I just downloaded the Miss Sloane script (haven't read it yet), and Jonathan Perera's story of how he wrote it is inspiring -- makes me want to keep going, in fact. And thank you for the kind words about The Last Descent. Definitely a passion project, and one that was a lot of fun!
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Mark, Such great points! It's not like my drawer is so filled with completed screenplays that I don't have room for one more. Anyway, I've already got 30 pages of this one done, so I might as well get to the end of a first draft and go from there. Thanks for the encouragement.