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I have a film script. A few of them, actually. In fact, for years now, I've labored under the delusion that I'm one agent away from being Mira Sorvino's new moody-but-talented tae-bo buddy.
The agents I submit my scripts to, alas, almost always return them with the same two-word assessment: "Too quirky." I believe this means, "Where's the explosions?" Or possibly, "This sucks."
In either case, I remain a nobody. So when I heard about ScriptShark.com, I momentarily felt hopeful. For $100, the Hollywood hammerheads at this site read your screenplay. If they like it, they post a synopsis in their Spec Market area, which is allegedly frequented by industry bigwigs dying to hand over big fat checks to overlooked screenwriters.
Thus, I mailed in $100 and my copyright-protected scriptTattletale, a bleak, Swedish-style farce about a stuttering movie star and an aloofly promiscuous photographer who looks a lot like Mira Sorvino. Two weeks later, though, it was the same old story. A rejection letter from ScriptShark.com, along with two typed pages of reasons whyTattletale didn't measure up. What's innovative about that, except this time I had to pay to find out my script sucks?
Overall, the Shark analysis was perceptive - but also disappointingly similar to the free feedback I'd received previously from traditional agencies and studios, right down to the dreaded Q word. "This quirky script is filled with unique, interesting characters and appealing dialogue," it read. "In the end, the central concept is too offbeat to have any wide appeal, although the script displays a genuine sense of heart."
ScriptShark.com: $100;www.scriptshark.com,info@scriptshark.com.
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