Writers Make Trailer For Their Screenplay

COMMENTS (45)

• I have never laughed so hard at such an idiotic trailer and premise. These two douchebags need to focus on their community college ‘film classes’. Maybe 20 years down the road they’ll be successful PA’s. Probably not.

  Comment by Poe — Thursday October 7, 2010 @ 9:09am PDT  Reply to this post

• brian k. vaughn wrote this script a year or so ago and sold it for lots of money. ROUNDTABLE

  Comment by rick — Thursday October 7, 2010 @ 10:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• Everyone on these boards who is attacking these guys is a jealous, petty, negative jerk! An agent isn’t the only way to sell a script nor should it be. These guys show a little creativity, a little thinking outside the box and they are hammered for it. No wonder this industry is hard pressed for anything fresh.

  I hope their screenplay sells (it is far from being the worst idea for a movie, take it from someone who used to be a reader) and the industry starts looking elsewhere for scripts rather than just
  CAA, WME, et al. And if you haven’t read their script, how do you know it sucks? Do you know if the writing is good or the jokes are funny. No, you don’t so stop pretending like you can tell if it’s any good.

  Also, if you just heard a brief description of them, Inception and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind have similarities, but they are two very different movies. Same goes for HEAT and THE TOWN.

  Good luck, Dave and Kent. Although why you’d want to work in an industry full of envious pricks (read above) is beyond me.

  Comment by A non-hater — Thursday October 7, 2010 @ 3:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If the idea of doing a trailer for a screenplay was executed well I’m not sure it would make a difference. So an exec watches one minute and it leads him to read the screenplay….maybe it works …maybe not

  Comment by GT — Thursday October 7, 2010 @ 3:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• say what you want about the idea. that’s subjective.

  The fact that that was not a trailer, but a PowerPoint presentation with Carmina Burana, (Orff’s masterpiece that hollywood has absolutely used to DEATH!) should get it off any executive’s desk within about 30 seconds. on a good day.

  About as long as it probably took them to make that “trailer”

  Comment by aPeRhApsHaNd — Thursday October 7, 2010 @ 4:57pm PDT  Reply to this post