Every year, Scott Myers breaks down the spec script market. I have hope, but 2020 felt dire. It's going to be years before we understand the lasting effects the pandemic had within Hollywood. The immediate effects are hard enough to handle, from assistants losing their jobs to studios selling off assets to production companies folding. 2020 was a really hard year for Hollywood. And it hit screenwriters especially hard. Without the ability to buy and shoot ideas, Hollywood greatly reduced the number of specs it bought, down from 32 in 2019 to 25 this year. Spec scripts used to be hot, especially in the 90s. There was a period where studios were buying over 150 of them a year. New writers were breaking in, and we were seeing some incredible films come from them. That trend died when studios began focusing on IP, and things have gotten worse. These numbers have been trending downward for over a decade. Scott Myers of Go Into the Story breaks down the numbers, and this year, they feel bleak. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 11 February, 2021