What would an agent or manager think about a new, unknown writer who has a big budget screenplay? Could they do something, or just reject them?
I apologize for asking, and it is not out of arrogance, but fear, because I greatly have this dream and found out I only wrote Sci-fi and action(multiple locations, a lot of shooting, etc)
Thank you for taking the time to read and answer this!:)
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My first screenplay was like that... epic, ensemble, supernatural.... 23 years later, it's still a hope of mine it'll get made one day. One reader told me I reminded her of a young Stan Kubrick and that Stan would love this. (apparently, she dated him)
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"Arrival" sat with some producers for well over 10 years. It may be harder to fund an expensive film from an unknown because it will not be read to start with. But great work will be made. Your work will be rewritten by someone that they trust. Not because it is bad. But because it will be insurance in their minds.
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An agent doesn't care what it cost to produce because they aren't paying to produce it. However big budget films always take longer to sell but agents represent the screenwriter not just one screenplay. As far as managers go I don't have clue what they think or do.
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Craig D Griffiths That's one of the reason my supernatural script has sat in my drawer for 23 years... it's my baby... the one I won't let others "dreck" (as Terry Rossio wrote in WordPlay) All the others? No problem. Hire another writer to redo it as insurance. But my first one I wanted to direct too. As an unknown, it's why I turned to authoring. Easier. And my words stay what they are... good, bad, and ugly. However, the process made me a better writer with stronger and deeper roots than when I naively started back in 1995 and gave up an engineering career to do so. No regrets though.