While I'm here, I'm going to go ahead and ask really quickly. For action/thriller film with limited characters/locations, what is a good length. I was going to try and get it to 90 pages, but I'm worried that that isn't long enough. Thoughts?
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That sounds about right, since the duration of your film might roughly equate to 90 minutes. Unless it's a big profile project with known stars, it's best to keep the duration modest. No fixed rules though. At Raya Films, we're post-producing #AgentKellyMovie coming out at 80 minutes, and sales/distributors seem to be fine with that. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6721354
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Wonderful! Thank you!! I thought it might be best to keep it short. Right now at 18 pages. Taking it slowly, haha.
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90-100 pages for that kind of script sounds good!
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The Bible says in general 90-120; for a comedy rather 90 and a drama 110~ish. I think 90 is well within the margin for a thriller...
Sounds good to me, haha. Definitely have those whammys in there, haha.
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I don't even attempt at the perfect pages number anymore. I just write the story and they naturally stop around 100. (Although my first was probably 160!) I figure if "they" need more, I can always write more. But as the saying goes- Less is more. In fact I usually do one edit, or revision where all I do is look at what can and should be cut.
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A Quiet Place, with limited characters and locations, clocks in at 95 minutes. It's the perfect length.
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For action/thriller, 90 pages is perfect