Jessica Bendinger (Bring It On, Stick It) is hosting a competition centered around her new novel, inviting readers to adapt a bit from it into a scene.
It’s like one of this site’s scene challenges, but based on an actual real book rather than my random themes of science and/or self-amusement.
You can check out the rules for Jessica’s competition here.
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November 19th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Holy fucknuts! A script consultation with Jessica costs $10,000!
November 19th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
@terraling: What you said.
Also, unless you want to use only the first chapter, you have to buy the book to participate in the contest. I find the whole thing a little fishy.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
OMG a job intervjue.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Wait, are you guys serious? This is pretty awesome. No one else is doing something cool like this. Imagine if J.K. Rowling had done it. Oh, and I’ve read the book…it’s worth your the time.
November 19th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Jessica,
You’re hot.
$10k?
WTF?!?!?
November 19th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I’ll download the 1st chapter and adapt a scene from that, heh.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Hmmm…Always appreciate a good bit of info, but I have never heard of Jessica and then when I looked her up, wasn’t that impressed with her films…I think I’ll pass!
November 19th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Nick, you could borrow the book from the library or do what everyone at Barnes & Nobles do: Read the book there.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
While Hollywood adapts comics like crazy, books other than select bestsellers seem rarely adapted now. Is there some sort of new legal logjam? I hear that options are still taken on most everything, so is it Development Hell at fault?
November 21st, 2009 at 7:32 pm
“Get your foot in the door and your script in the hands of a professional, the screenwriter behind Bring it on and Stick It.”
Who assigns a monetary value to reading a script? And 10K?! This woman needs help. If she can get 10K to read a script, that makes her the highest paid reader in the history of humankind… why waste time writing and directing? Four scripts a day = Goldman Sacks type money.
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:03 am
Geez… could I have the cash instead of the consult?
November 24th, 2009 at 8:16 am
@ Nick.
I’m with you man. This sounds like a cynical ploy cooked up by some nefarious marketing dept. If it was genuine, and not a thinly veiled attempt to shift more books by targeting wanabee screenwriters, they should invite people to adapt the same passage from the beginning of the book.
Surely this should be enough of a marketing tool anyway – if the beginning’s good, people will want to read on…
November 24th, 2009 at 8:31 am
And what’s with the ‘soundtrack’? It’s a book!! You want to try and sell us that too?
Forgive the venting of spleen, but i find this kind of cynical marketing v offensive. It has a recommendation from Randy Jackson saying ‘it’s the BOMB!’ for crying out loud. Wonder who that’s targeting?
At least when John does his scene challenges (then reads them all personally, when he could be getting paid for other work) there is no hidden motive, it is simply for fun/altruism. If Jessica wants to give something back god bless her she should do it without trying to sell us something at the same time.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:31 am
I’m in!!!
November 25th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
To give Ms. Bendinger the benefit of the doubt, the site says a script consultation with her has a “value” of $10,000. That could simply be an estimate of the value one might place on her services if she were to offer them — not necessarily that she actually offers said service for that price.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:53 am
screenwriting is like everything else. you d have to work really hard to get it. theres no such thing as wannabe screenwriters. If you felt hit by that one, shitt i did. In every form of art, maybe one of every 100 do really well. Take eating for example. While some bodies are unfeer, still eating is this art. -btw-Talent seem to isolate, or have effects in almost every area of anyones life. Talent is also not talent if it
s just part of talent. Screen writer wannabes have maybe one cool idea and no plan or directed luck against them. And there is the reflection of what you are really wanting to do. In any case, if you have this amazing bullet proof script and go see an agent, you made it. -Add looks special. Wonder what writer wins. Maybe John August takes two nights reading the book and two lunches writing the winning piece.November 28th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I was bjoern to be a screenwriter!
November 29th, 2009 at 4:16 am
@Horatio hey get out of here; it`s : I wish bjoern to be a screenwriter.
November 29th, 2009 at 7:12 am
The Bjoern Ultimatum!
December 1st, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Awesome. I love this site. I
m going all in, and in addition to that, im going to eat lots of chocolate and sugar so i can stay up and write this. I wonder if it`s expected to stick to her book or she wants something creative. may the best writer win.December 1st, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Bjoern to win, baby!
December 1st, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Like the impossible “life”. Exploring romance, writing and maybe winning. +sticky danger. And I know that sofware gonna spell trouble. t.r.o.u.b.l.e. I need to go Homer and studdy the dictionary. This came very sudden!! Hey Horatio, I like your name, but you already knew that:=)
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:33 am
Yes it
s Homer. "dough... I cant even compete. USA only :(December 2nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm
This thread can
t get long enough. John, sorry about New York. If you get really depressed about it, you could always party for a weekend here on the 4th. Just saying. Maybe trey parker should visit there or something. Anyway, atleast im gonna read the book. Hope it`s something cool with 7 :=)