Archive for the 'Treatments' Category

• e  11 Based on an idea by…

  “Based on an idea by” is a rare credit, for good reason.

• e  95 The perils of coincidence

  The big villain in Spider-Man 3 was a plague of coincidence. Here’s how they could have avoided it.

• e  182 Air vents are for air

  Ladies and gentlemen, screenwriters, it’s time to stop putting character in air vents.

• e  Comments Off What became of American McGee’s Alice?

  Update query on the video game potentially becoming a movie.

• e  7 Selling a story if you’re not a screenwriter

  It’s hard work to take an idea and turn it into a movie without knowing how to write, but it happens all the time.

• e  1 Got the story, but i can’t write

  Can’t write your great idea? Find someone who can.

• e  Comments Off To google google

  If Kafka ran google.

• e  2 How long a treatment?

  There’s no standard, but past 20 pages I’d be worried.

• e  1 Specs, treatments, and pitches

  The differences, defined.