If everyone sends in the scripts that they haven't had any luck with, then Amazon will be filled with crappy scripts and the whole concept will fail.  At the same time, sending in your good scripts will freeze them up for eighteen months.  I think that the idea of people changing your scripts and produce them is a worst case scenario--

--BTW, Coldbug, you can't copyright an idea--

--Most of the experienced writers are keeping away, leaving Amazon Studios no different than any other writers board on the net.  Atleast here, we can discuss the scripts.


Phil

Agreed Phil.

The opportunity here is still the one I mentioned earlier though:

Take a script with a good idea but badly handled and re-write it.

You may win the monthly prize and get 50% and you may also demonstrate to others that yopu have the ability to fix and develop scripts.

That, for me, is the shining opportunity here. You can't lose any of your babies, but you can still prove you've got the chops and the very act of doing it will be good practice.

Had a quick scan of the horrors and I came across two scripts with some potential.

The Banshee

Neves.

The first is a ghost story set in Ireland about a Banshee. With modern horror techniques, I think this kind of old school story could be good and done right, it;s the kind of thing I'd like to watch and maybe even make.

The opening of the script was OK as well. A little "obvious" in the execution, by which I mean that it feels like the writer has seen a lot of horrors and is using a lot of derivative action, but it wasn't bad.

Neves I couldn't open, but the log-line is pretty interesting. The guy who has posted it based it on his own novel of the same name.

Some kids kill a murderer who killed their parents, and traits of the killer start to manifest in the kids so they end up looking to kill each other.

Like I say, I haven't even looked at the script, but that's a pretty good idea IMO. Quite execution dependent, but there's a nice psychological undertone in there to go with the expected violence.

I think writers who really brought their skill to projects like that could do something. Just my opinion.

Quoted from Scar Tissue Films Without getting too political...imagine for a second that this takes off in a big way and imagine the effect that would have long-term for writers. The big companies are always looking for a way to cut costs...if this model works it will be implemented on a far wider scale. It's not really something that people, writers especially, should support IMHO.

I don't think anyone envisages this taking off to the point where it skews the traditional pick-up of scripts from non-repped writers. To my mind, it works as an opportunity for those who need it.

An 18 months option with a viable chance to have it made versus 0 months and no viability should be something considered. I'm not saying to use this route as a first choice for your script, but to dismiss it seems silly.