Tony Tost, a writer who’s worked on Longmire, Damnation and The Terror, has a great post up on his blog about the script (and other factors) that got him noticed in Hollywood. A little excerpt from that post:
Sometimes I get the impression that people are trying to break-in by writing a professional quality script. Something that approximates the quality of the films and TV shows they enjoy.
My perspective: the industry is flooded with writers who can write a B+ or 8 out of 10 script. Those who can slug and format their scenes correctly and put together a competently structured script largely free of cliches that makes all the right story turns at all the right page numbers.
That’s why I say: if 100 out of 100 industry readers think your script is professional quality, you probably won’t break in. But if 3 out of 100 industry readers think your script is the best thing they’ve read all year, then you’ve got a really great chance at breaking in. And it doesn’t matter what the other 97 readers think.
Tony Tost
In the post he goes into detail about the choices he made that set him up for success and let him stand out. So give his post a read and check out his pilot!
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