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Safest way to share a screenplay online1/11/2023 Interestingly, the majority of projects I've read that purport to have used actual names, dates, and locales of stories that weren't front-page material aren't exactly blowing out all the stops on a Google search. Secondly, human interest stories that get tucked somewhere into the back pages involve people who are just as real as the front-page headliners and, accordingly, could acquire real lawyers who aren't going to take kindly to their clients' real names being used without written permission. ![]() Murders, political scandals and catastrophic disasters rank high as potential film material even if the project gets put on a backburner, the first powerbroker to secure an option will render it hands-off for anyone else. The first is that the rights to adapt a blockbuster news story to a feature film are probably being negotiated by a major screenwriter, publishing house or producer while you're still working on your first cup of coffee. If the media is your primary source of inspiration, you need to be aware of two things. Ripped from the HeadlinesÄaily newspapers are replete with characters and incidents that lend themselves to compelling plots. ![]() ![]() Here's a look at how and why these impassioned attempts to make Art imitate Life repeatedly unravel. Reality, it seems, has become a popular excuse to go light on substance and even lighter on the rules that constitute a marketable film. ![]() Specifically, if you have to warn everyone to cut you some slack because you're distracted by transporting the greatest bundle of joy in the world, you should probably not be on the road to begin with. Whether such events happened personally to the author or someone else, however, these claims of authenticity garner pretty much the same reaction as whenever I see a car sporting one of those perky yellow "Baby on Board" decals. Of the several hundred projects a year I review as a script consultant, nearly 20% are prefaced with some variation on the theme "Everything in this plot really, truly happened." Translated: "That's why I know/hope/expect you will really, truly like it." Based on a true story is one of those unfortunate catch-phrases that usually has the opposite effect in courting a producer's enthusiasm than most writers assume.
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