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According to TrekWeb, Paramount Pictures has suspended its open script submission policy. Looks you and others won't be able to submit spec scripts for Enterprise.
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Hmmm...this makes Earth: Final Conflict look good in my eyes now...Wait, where did that come from?
By any chance was there any reason for the suspension?
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None given. My best guess is that the intern who picked through the weekly unsolicited submissions read one chilling tale about Spock returning from Romulus to rescue Tom Riker in order to fly around the Galaxy in a fleet with 3 Sovereigns and 42 Defiants blowing up Gorns and Tellarites and explaining why the Klingon foreheads changed while avoiding Sela and her ally the Horta too many and ran off screaming down the the middle of Melrose Avenue dodging large trucks.
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A reason is given. There are legal issues. I don't know the other reasons. Maybe, just maybe, the writers of this new show are actually planning on writing an arc for the series and a fan written script wouldn't work with the arc.
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Does Paramount have an open script policy for Star Trek movies???
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That has to be one of the most mentally-disjointed statements I've heard in a while.
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As to movies, I'm sure they don't have an open script policy.
By the way, Moore and many other writers dodn't necessarily get in through the open submission process. Ron Moore knew someone who got his work read, and he was told to get an agent and resubmit. He didn't come in totally without an agent. He told me this when I interviewed him in 1989.
And, actually, it's not so hard to get an agency to represent you. A made a few dozen phone calls and was able to land at the same agency where Moore started without much effort. You just have to know the trick of learning which agency to call.
Oh, and have a good writing sample. An outline generally won't get you anywhere. You need a complete screenplay.
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There's been some speculation that bans on unsolicited scripts may have been a condition of the new WGA contract. Anyone unlazy enough to dig around and verify?
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Well, I think that one could still submit spec scripts to the show. It's just that you'll need to have an agent representing you to do it. The way the process worked was that anyone could submit up to two spec scripts before you would need to have agent. The WGA agreement, from what I gather, has effectively ended that. You need to have an agent now.
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This isn't really that much of a change, you know. Any script good enough to be seriously considered by TPTB is good enough to impress an agent.
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That's right. If anybody was dying to submit a script to Enterprise and you actually thought you had a shot, then you should have no problem getting an agent and sumbitting it through them.
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