ahahah Hey dont knock the "Grudge", it was enough to make my brother jump and that was enough entertainment for me watching him jump like a girl :=).
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:41:35 -0600 Subject: Re: Selling a script to a writer/publisher From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Check out The Lost Skeleton of Cadabra. It's modern made and hilarious. And the redhead is way hot. Nick A On Jul 28, 2012 3:32 PM, "Nat Russo" <[email protected]> wrote: I LOVE bad horror movies :) My wife and I sometimes stay up at night watching the "chilr" channel. The movies (and often the acting) are so bad we get a kick out of them. We usually wind up doing a home version of MST3K while watching them :) On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Nick Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: And then, about a million levels below bad there are movies like The Grudge, Paranormal Activity and Grave Encounters... Nick A On Jul 28, 2012 12:07 PM, "Raymond Feist" <[email protected]> wrote: On Jul 28, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Paddyjack <[email protected]> wrote: > Ray, > > A weird idea struck me this morning and I thought you may have some > ideas about this. Let's say John has this great idea for a book but > can't even write an Happy Birthday card correctly.... can he sell the > idea to a publisher, or even directly to a writer so that it would be > written by someone else who knows how to do it? It seems to happen for > movies sometimes, and I was wondering if it happens also with books? > > Thanks, > > PJ > You're jamming a lot of stuff into one basket. First, ideas can't be copyrighted. Only the unique expression thereof, so whatever John might dream up, he'd have to be pretty convinced it was something special. OK, so let's say it's a really nifty concept. He could try to find a co-writer, but the fact is, without front money he's not going to find too many pros willing to listen. We need ideas like we need our taxes raised. There are books I want to write I'll never get to, because they'll always be the third or fourth choice of what to do next. If he found a writer, at that point it would be as if he wrote it himself, i.e. finding a publisher and all the rest of that. As for movies, you're probably seeing "Story by" followed by "Screenplay by" someone different. That's a different thing. In screenwriting there's a stage called the "story pitch." So let's say I have a pitch meeting for my movie idea, "Really Nifty Stuff," and they like the idea, but don't like my first draft screenplay. They might buy the idea and hire another writer to do it. So, in short, John would have to be able at least to write a pitch and have a story bible (as it's known in the biz). Really there are no "good" ideas or "bad" ideas in stories. Only good and bad executions of storytelling. Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity. -- Sent from my Crappy Laptop (tm) using a poor excuse for a web browser.
