Quarter Finals - Eating a Hearse

Greetings from the Inkpot

I'm excited to announce that my comedy screenplay 

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has made quarter finals in the Stage 32 Grown Up Screenplay Contest.  

Previous reviews:

BlueCat Evaluation quarter-finalist: “I wish this movie had been made instead of ‘The Bucket List’! The dialogue is extremely strong. In addition to being consistently clever and sometimes guffaw-out-loud funny, it is briskly paced, fluid, and rings true to the characters throughout. You have a great ear…unusual and layered characters, ones an audience will want to get to know, well drawn, multi-faceted as the bonds that they share…fun and breezy without sacrificing depth,  quite well-crafted, a lot of creativity and wit in the service of some very serious subject matter.” Script Vamp: all highest “excellent” honors for Characters and conflict.  

May we all sell our scripts!
Karen Lin

IDEAS TIME TRAVEL

Sister Folio and I wrote a treatment and beginning of a script called Chartres. 

 

When we pitched it, we were told it sounded derivitive of Di Vinci Code. We'd created it before the book came out. I've heard many authors talk about this happening to them.  It seems ideas leak out into the air and get caught by others.  

 

Another of our scripts, No One Asked the River, takes place in China, a whipper-snapper producer said, "China? Nobody cares to watch a Chinese themed or located movie." The very next year Crouching Tiger came out, then House of Flying Daggers, Kung Fu Soccer, etc - big hits. Wouldn't it be ironic if that same producer called No One Asked the River derivative now? 

 

Ideas time travel.

We need to get our work out there when it's wanted.  If only we could know exactly when that is.

Has this ever happened to you?  If so, please share your experience with

the Inkpot.