If you were at all plugged into the filmmaking or screenwriting community in the spring of 2024, you heard something about the new “$400 script competition,” The Gauntlet, launched by ScriptHop. But if you took the time to go to the site, you realized it was actually deliberately not a competition; it was something else entirely. And it was only $380.So, after talking about it with our screenwriting expert Jason Hellerman (“everyone is talking about it, but I don’t know anybody who is doing it,” he said), I figured I would submit. Now, I want to be clear, it’s not the '70s. This isn’t a magazine. No Film School doesn’t offer me an expense account (though Editor, if you ever want to, let me know!). I paid my own $380 to enter the Script Gauntlet.The Guantlet (Yes, It's the One With Shane Black)Why? Honestly, the names on the header. Don Bohlinger. Jim Herzfeld, Shane Black. Seriously, The Nice Guys is a top ten movie for the 21st century. People whose work as screenwriters, and whose commitment to the community of writers, I took seriously. This is an industry where endorsements matter. For The Gauntlet, people whom I respected were endorsing the platform. I was curious about what system they had built and how it might be useful to the filmmaking community at large.Also, let’s be honest, if it were terrible, I could still get an article out of it. If you haven’t read it, I entered a $300 contest a...
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