how would i go about subbmitting a movie script do a director or a company or something? and would this cost me anything?
I’m gonna take this query at face value and run with it, despite the fact that my Spidey Senses are screaming right now.
Assuming that it is your work alone, and you have sole claim to it, you can contact the Screenwriters Guild of America. They can help you protect your intellectual property. You have to regard it as such, it’s not a creative item alone. It’s also property. If you wrote it in collaboration with another ( or others ) then find an attorney who does entertainment contract law and make sure you all are cool with each other.
There will be costs involved in Registering it, no doubt. I do not know what they are. The web site may be of great help in this regard.
Register the screenplay with the Guild mentioned above. Then, you basically want someone to fall in love with it and want to produce it. Most studios and production companies would rather see a work submitted by an agent who REPS a writer, instead of a cold submission by an unknown writer. Yes yes yes, there are lots of cool stories about unknowns hitting it big with their first scripts but this is NOT the norm.
As the people at the Guild for a list of agents who rep screenwriters. After the work is Registered with the SGA, you can shop it around safely. I’d suggest burning it to CD’s or Floppy Disks in addition to paper. Some people might want it that way on their desk. Either way it is protected media now.
Good luck with it. Remember something- there are a ton of writers who make a pretty penny each year by selling scripts or options for screenplays, and having them sit on the shelf awaiting a development deal. Just because the script is bought by a production facitily doesn’t mean your movie will get made. Harsh, but very very true.
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Even harsher, I’ve heard that sometimes they’ll buy a script with deliberate intent NOT to produce it, either for competitive reasons (like if there’s a similar story already in the works) or simply to prevent ownership confusion (like if it is so similar to something else that they’re afraid of copyright lawsuits).
I have nothing to do with the entertainment or legal industries, so I could be totally wrong. But I’ve heard of this kind of stuff.
i suggest you move to hollywood and leave copies in public bathrooms.