# Have script, need director!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-script-need-director/661163>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 17, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-script-need-director/661163 "2013-06-17T04:54:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-script-need-director/661163/21 "2013-06-18T23:27:28Z")

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There must be dozens of books on how to write a screenplay at Amazon. Read a whole bunch of them.

Then go to [imdb.com](http://imdb.com) and look up every movie or series that you could call grand space opera. Click on their creators and check their experience before they sold it. Notice how few of them exist. Also check names of major authors of space operas and see if any of them have ever sold a script or even the rights of their books. Realize that everybody in Hollywood hates grand space opera.

If you have the time, of course.

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**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-script-need-director/661163/22 "2013-06-20T21:22:47Z")

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Direct it yourself. From _Argo_:

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> Can you teach somebody to be a director in a day?
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> You can teach a rhesus monkey to be a director in a day.

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