Yes, it is foremost due to legal concerns and for practical volume concerns as well. I suspect you will understand why studios both big and small have this policy about not accepting unsolicited material. See how many of those you think are great scripts ready to be made into movies. Don’t look at the genre, the synopsis, log line or writers name, just pick a total of ten scripts. Go to one of the peer review websites like zoetrope, scriptbuddy and triggerstreet. It's expensive to have a script covered and hiring more and more readers just so the writer with one script (their very first) who believes it's the best script ever written gets their shot isn't cost effective. One thing CJ didn't mention is the cost of reading scripts.
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D you might be surprised to hear that there is not a vast number of scripts that are better than the ones they accept from agents, managers, and lawyers.
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Sure, many great scripts get blocked by the "unsolicited material" wall, but by a factor of 8 to 1 the unreadable/unmarketable/poorly written scripts are also blocked. I "liked" his comment but I wanted to support it here, too. Simply employ an online submission process which has every writer submit through a system which binds them to the terms of a fair release form.ĬJ hit it. What I'd like to see are more studios and management companies adopting the same approach as Amazon Studios. But is it any better than the systems that have grown organically such as the competitions and coverage services which help writers gain representation? This I'm not so sure about, but perhaps. So does your WGA solution solve those issues? Well perhaps it could.
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If they accept unsolicited material, and want to stay protected, they have to send out a form to every writer they accept material from, handle getting it signed, and keep the paperwork on file. Studios make themselves vulnerable by reading submissions unless they are protected by a release form. Secondly, there's the legal complications. Firstly, there's the issue of the message they're sending out If a studio accepts unsolicited material, they are opening the flood gates and may become swamped with new material, most of which is going to be of a very low standard. I think we have to take a step back and consider why so many studios feel they have to do this.