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Joshua Marston wrote and directed 2004′s feature Maria Full Of Grace and more recently has helmed episodes of CBS’ The Good Wife and HBO’s The Newsroom. He also gets credit for this spot-on flow chart posted on National Public Radio’s Planet Money blog this week. Check out his simple 29-step plan that must have been one heck of a cathartic experience to put together (Note: Marston’s most recent feature is this year’s The Forgiveness Of Blood, shot in … Albania):
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I’m quitting.
This is pretty realistic with the exception of Step #26.
Ha!
This should be a downloadable .pdf
I knew it, this is the yellow brick road ive been searching for.
Very good.
Sigh, unfortunately, this is how it is. Glad somebody took the time to make this. I’ve been in the business for quite sometime and I have never gotten passed 18. This is coming from a writer/filmmaker who’s been in top fests and received prestigious awards. My advice — don’t quit the day job until you receive the green light.
Step 1
This should be a board-game.
Step 2
Once it is, I’ll sell the rights to the highest bidder!
Did someone say overnight success?
Sounds like screenwriters really get the worst of this raw deal. How depressing!
The simple fact is that this business sucks for everyone but a handful of people who’s daddies ran the business thirty years ago and select few geniuses (e.g., Tarantino). Every writer I know, for example, is damn near broke – even ones with several sales under their belts. Free work doesn’t exist in other businesses to the extent it does in this town. The business is broken and will not get better.
Classic and sadly right on! This will probably get Marston a greenlight faster than anything else he might’ve done!
Brilliant.
The Unions allow the writer to do that much writing without getting paid? Seriously?
Technically, no. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen all the time.
His best writing yet!
Writers always get screwed. Free rewrites are a painful truth, regardless of what the WGA says, unless you are an A-list writer… and in that case you wouldn’t sign on for this shit.
it’s a nice change to see Marston do something in English, and something enjoyable.