There are two reasons. And they are the same two reasons for everything (including the reasons why television writing is so much better than movie writing.)
Love and Money.
Money's pt I. Television pays better. A TV writer can move from writer, to producer to creator and make so much money that light will bend around him or her. A screenwriter is often treated like wheat before the thresher of the almighty director or incredibly expensive star.
Love is a bit more esoteric. But to write something well, you must love it deeply. And when something you love gets torn to bits, it hurts. A lot.
It's more likely that a movie will get shredded and re-shredded because they cost so damn much and everybody gets nervous. Seriously, you put $120 million into a film and tell me you're not going to be nervous?
And in the absence of strong moral character ( also known as the city of Los Angeles ) how can you hold your course through the strain of producing and distributing a movie without caving into the dark urges to add the next Jar Jar Binks. Or remake King Kong rather than take a chance on a new film that people may not like.
So what movie(s) are you hating at the moment my old friend? Blogtificate please?
oh and don't forget... the TV writer(s) write a pilot on an idea - take the pilot and then get paid for the idea and every show after... the movie script gets written, then bought by whatever movie studio is willing to take the chance on it... the writter gets paid pittence after the writting gets done.
Who can tell me why, as of recent, all of the good writers are writing TV...
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There are two reasons. And they are the same two reasons for everything (including the reasons why television writing is so much better than movie writing.)
Love and Money.
Money's pt I. Television pays better. A TV writer can move from writer, to producer to creator and make so much money that light will bend around him or her. A screenwriter is often treated like wheat before the thresher of the almighty director or incredibly expensive star.
Love is a bit more esoteric. But to write something well, you must love it deeply. And when something you love gets torn to bits, it hurts. A lot.
It's more likely that a movie will get shredded and re-shredded because they cost so damn much and everybody gets nervous. Seriously, you put $120 million into a film and tell me you're not going to be nervous?
And in the absence of strong moral character ( also known as the city of Los Angeles ) how can you hold your course through the strain of producing and distributing a movie without caving into the dark urges to add the next Jar Jar Binks. Or remake King Kong rather than take a chance on a new film that people may not like.
So what movie(s) are you hating at the moment my old friend? Blogtificate please?
yeah - what he said.
oh and don't forget... the TV writer(s) write a pilot on an idea - take the pilot and then get paid for the idea and every show after... the movie script gets written, then bought by whatever movie studio is willing to take the chance on it... the writter gets paid pittence after the writting gets done.
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