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wrote screenplay.

whats the next step?

sell to miramax? find producer?

>> No.524334

Buy a video camera and drag along some friends

>> No.524335

>>524334
When finished, post on YouTube.

>> No.524336

Tear it up and quit. Nine times out of ten, a studio wont even look at a screen play unless it's an adaptation of a book, television show, comic, movie, or toy line. Studios only pick up new scripts if they're already attached to a director with selling power.

>> No.524343

>>524336
Yeah. Fuck you.

OP, if you had the balls to finish writing the screenplay, then push forward. You may fail, but fuck it, cause you'll start afresh the next day despite the major hangover.

Oh. And the next step is post excerpts on 4chan, cause we are a curious lot.

>> No.524344

>>524336
Sit outside famous producers house, or possibly waitress at their favorite restaurant. Through antics and hijinks, manage to get him to read it. He loves it and carries you to fame and bitches.

>> No.524345

If you're satisfied with it, find an agent and go for it.

>> No.524346

>>524336
if thats true

how do you explain tarantino =|

he was first time director, with his first time script (reservoir dogs)

things seemed to go along pretty well, since the story and plot were solid

>> No.524347

>>524346
>Tarantino
>solid

Haha, go back to /tv/. /lit/ is for adults.

>> No.524349

>>524346
that was like 20 yrs ago

>> No.524350 [DELETED] 

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>> No.524351

>>524347
>HURR DURR SOMEONE LIKES SOMETHING I DON'T THEY MUSTY BE KIDS!!!!

Grow up man

>> No.524352

>>524346
That was an independent film. Don't need to sell it to studios.

I'm not sure how Tarantino got the money to finance the film, or how he got those actors attached to it, though. He must've had some great connections in the film industry.

>> No.524353

OP here

how would somone go about finding an agent?

can't i just mail it to a production company. or keep hassling them to at least read the first scene?

i can handle rejection jussssssst fine.

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524355

/lit/ - how to make movies

>> No.524360

>>524346
Tarantino wrote and directed his first screenplay in 1987. It was not Reservoir Dogs. Also, he has been chummy with Lawrence Bender since the 80s.

Make friends in the business, OP, it's really your only chance to make it big. If you just want to see it acted out, get some friends and a decent camera.

>> No.524404

make 500 copies, drop them around all the Starbucks in LA, wait three years for someone to contact you, lose hope, buy a video camera and drag along some friends, post it on YouTube

also
>>524336
>Nine times out of ten
more like once in a hundred, assuming its an independent studio, even then you might as well shoot it yourself

>> No.524414

by an Canon HV30
Find someone to direct. Finding someone who watches a lot of foreign films, preferably, to impress pretentious film fags.
Find art college kids to act.
Mandatory shaky cam tracking shots.
Call it "your cinema"
Finish, send to festivals, make connections, and then have a legit copy produced later.

>> No.524431

make millions of copies
send to every agent, producer, actor and director you can find a mailing address to
good luck

>> No.524445

took a shit.

whats the next step?

flush? wipe? wash hands?

>> No.524454

>>524445
flush or wipe, depending on how messy it is

>> No.524472

CANT BELIEVE u wrote a screenplay but u dont know the next step. I cannot honestly believe you are legit.

>> No.524482

>>524472
what are you talking about, this is 4chan, no one ever lies. if we did the tigers would get us.

>> No.524494

>>524344
sounds like a brilliant story right thur.

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524521

>>524353

authorlink

>> No.524956

>>524353

You can't be serious.

>> No.524975

>>524346
Tarantino is in Mensa. OP probably is a slightly above average person that went to some shitty liberal arts school.

>> No.525001

Please don't write a screenplay if you have no idea what to do with it.

There was no point.

>> No.525012

>sell to miramax? find producer?

Woah woah, hold on there buddy. Is it even good?

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525021

ITT: The movie was better than the book.

>> No.525035

>>524975
>mensa
>acting as if that's any measurement of legitimate achievement
mensa member detected

>> No.525058

http://www.wga.org/agency/agencylist.asp

>> No.525074

get an agent you fool

>> No.525384

OP here

yes it is good.


i want director rights...

>> No.525392

>>525384
If you've never sold a screenplay before you will never maintain director rights.

>> No.525399

your next step is to give up,
even if its good (chances are high that its not)
you'll never be able to sell it.

welcome to real world

>> No.525449

>>525384

Find a different studio, as far as I know Miramax hasn't been bought yet.

>> No.525450

Does Miramax still exist? I thought they shut down completely.

>> No.525457

get an agent.