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What Does A Screenwriter Do With A Finished Screenplay? by Blayne Weaver via FilmCourage.com.
Film Courage: When you finish a screenplay on spec, what’s protocol when you’re done?
Blayne Weaver: You finish it up and get all of your buddies to read it and tell you what you think because this is like you only get one first read on that. And this is hard for me because I like to get it out there, see what the agent thinks (as soon as possible) and…it’s a mistake! You should hold it until it’s done. I have trouble taking that advice but…you send it to your agent or producers or whoever your contacts are in the world and you wait to see what they say.
It’s pretty simple. You have very little power over it once they take it. I have this one script that has had overwhelmingly positive feedback and notes and has been at one agency for about 8 months…you know…going through actors, big movie stars reading it or their “people” reading it. Anyways, we will wait for 9 weeks and then we will hear “Well, Matthew McConaughey just passed, but that’s okay. We’re going to Woody Harrelson.” Okay…9 weeks later “Well, Woody Harrelson passed, but that’s okay. We’re going to Josh Brolin.” And it just sits there and people read it and you know, I do nothing. I just sit and I’m happy that these agencies and this talent has something of mine to read. You know, maybe they will see my name on it...(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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