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.
[ July 23, 2001: Message edited by: Siegfried ]
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
*shakes head sadly*
T'was only a matter of time...
Posted by Michael_T (Member # 144) on :
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?
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
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.
[ July 23, 2001: Message edited by: The_Tom ]
Posted by targetemployee (Member # 217) on :
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.
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
Does Paramount have an open script policy for Star Trek movies???
[ July 23, 2001: Message edited by: MIB ]
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
That has to be one of the most mentally-disjointed statements I've heard in a while.
Posted by mrneutron (Member # 524) on :
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.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
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?
Posted by Dr. Obvious (Member # 271) on :
I'm pretty sure this comes as a result of the Writers Guild strike settlement too.
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
That sucks. Why is the writers guild denying everyone else a chance to have his/her work to be, at the very least, looked at?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
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.
Posted by Jeff The Card (Member # 411) on :
=(
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
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.
Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :
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.
Posted by Jeff The Card (Member # 411) on :
Well, I probably need to get an agent anyway, I've got a short story I'm going to try sending around to magazines firsts ... (maybe even The New Yorker, altho it'll probably get rejected, but ...)
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Go for it, Jeff. If I had a talent for writing I'd be sending samples to all the magazines, newpapers, etc. in the nation. Oh course, I'd be spending a buttload on stamps.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
quote: sumbitting
Ryan, if you had only replaced that second t with a c and an h, I would have laughed hard enough to damage my spleen.
Posted by Commander Dan (Member # 558) on :
Damn Writers Guild! I am really tired of situations where unions are forcing the exclusion of regular, average, everyday folks that do not want to unionize. At what point do these terms intrude upon a business’ right to hire any individual that an employer deems worthy of employment (regardless of his or her union affiliation)?
[ August 17, 2001: Message edited by: Commander Dan ]
