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How Your First Ten Pages — Or AI? — Will Determine if Someone Finishes Your Script

52 min • 14 mars 2024

Getting your script into the hands of the right people is extremely difficult. What is a desperate screenwriter to do if they seek feedback on their screenplay? Are script coverage services helpful or just another cog profiting from an emerging filmmaker’s hope?

In today’s episode, No Film School’s Charles Haine, GG Hawkins, and Jason Hellerman discuss:

Recalling memories from March 2020 when the world “shut down”
Why we are surprised that Nikon bought RED
The acquisition of BorrowLenses
The importance of the first 10 pages of your script
Why the opening scene of The Godfather is so powerful
The Gauntlet - a controversial script coverage service
What infuriates us about AI script coverage
Why AI cannot evaluate creative screenwriting
Hollywood, the hope machine

Memorable Quotes

“In those first ten pages you know, what is this movie and who is it for.” [14:55]
“The idea of AI evaluating your script is fucking horseshit.” [26:08]
“We keep engaging in this fantasy that AI can think. AI cannot fucking think.” [30:52]
“That’s what Hollywood is. It’s a hope machine. You always have perpetual hope that tomorrow you can become famous.” [40:46]

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