After my last post on writing for Hollywood, I stumbled across this article about the 2008 Black List.
What is the black list? It’s a list of “great” scripts that generated some sort of heat throughout the year but for one reason or another never received a green-light. Who votes on the scripts that get in? Big time agents, managers and executives. So is this a big ploy to get traction for projects that have gone cold? Maybe, but is that a bad thing? Does being on the list mean your script is dead? No. Witness JUNO. It actually got turned into a pretty good movie (did I say that?).
Disclaimer: I’m friends with at least two writers that have been on previous black lists so take with a grain of salt.
Did you read the loglines of the top ten scripts? Any favorites?
Tags: Black List, Screenwriting
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