When deciding on what to write or produce, are you thinking about what platform would best fit your content? Are you thinking about the marketability? If not, why are you writing and/or funding or developing screenplays? With the volatility of the distribution market right now, should you not be thinking about what movies are like yours, where are they being successful, and how yours fits that paradigm while maintaining a unique voice in the process? https://www.thenewscreenwriter.com/biography
Screenwriting : What to Produce? by Steve Douglas-Craig
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Dan MaxXx I don’t think blind pessimistism is a strategy. I think knowledge is your only weapon. Are you saying planning has no place?
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Dan M - over the decades I've been fired/replaced and rehired on more projects than I can remember - it's the nature of the business.
Dan G - target marketing has its place, but it is a small place. My advice is to write from your heart, don't allow the market to become your guiding light. But be aware of it.
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Biggest false advice is "nobody knows anything"...how come then people stay decades in this business, gain billions...pure luck? Guys, hate to break this to you but bitterness is usually first sign of drowned hopes...I myself tried and keep trying for over a decades into writing for film and had strictly limited success...meantime busted my ass into gaining money from graphic design and customer services (which bought me an apartment among other)...no shame to admit someone's low to average within this...can't all be Shane Black's as can't all be Michael Jordan's....world be boring...
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I look at hundreds of films that have influenced my psyche over the years and draw from all the ones I've loved. But I concern myself little with what influences the American Zeitgeist. That's how you become a true original.
Is this a rhetorical question about a rethorical question (?); in your bio you don't talk in the first person. The simple answer to your question is to write something that is still recognitional but can't be stated in x meets y; it's close to original -- not because it wants to be -- but because there's an unconvortabe paradox that the audience (unconsiously) immediately pics up -- gives them chills. Opposites attract... and at the same time... they don't. A good idea molded into a great screenplay almosts, just almosts, sells itself. Although I'm close, I'm still searching for such an idea.
Dan Guardino I ain't naming no names...just a general assumption...someone found himself in my comment, I'd be both glad and sad bout it...