And bad movies get made all the time…

With A list actors….and B list actors….no name actors…independently financed films and yet Hollywood pretends they are starving for new material, but will not consider a spec script if it’s not high concept. 

HIGH CONCEPT.  Let me ponder on that for a minute.  In fairness, not all spec scripts make it to the silver screen.  HOWEVER, there is just no way in the world that some of the stuff Hollywood has produced is always high concept.  That’s about writer name recognition…maybe not to me or to you, but within the industry. 

In my rhetorical voice, are you serious?

Here’s a prime example, Skyline was the worse movie I have seen this year and although the premise was supposedly high concept, the final execution and what I saw on screen left a bad taste in my mouth!  Even my husband looked at me like I was crazy for recommending we go and see it.   We left the theater like – HUH.

But this industry is no joke!  I rarely encounter Black female screenwriters, if at all. This has become very apparent to me within the Amazon Studios community.  (Nothing to do with the Amazon Studios community – it was it is) But if Hollywood ever needed a new and fresh perspective on life…well I pretty much have one – I’m not an older white male, so that qualifies me as unique in this industry.   I look at myself and I know I’m a good writer.  But it’s not until other people have told you the same can you feel comfort in your craft.  I have been told that I’m a good writer (and NOT just by my mother!) and that whatever “it” is, I have “it” and I should continue on my path.  My path is a long journey.  It will probably be longer than the average older while male…because the typical industry writer is an older white male. 

I just want to write good solid interesting scripts and have my films produce so that my community can be proud and they can say “Wow, did you know the screenwriter is a black female?”  My screenplays, treatments, and ideas I have written and etched out aren’t from an African American perspective.  That is the key to understanding my high concept thoughts. 

 So in the end, I’m really ticked off that even the worse of the worse scripts get green lit.

Scripts that have gone direct to DVD get green lighted……

At this point, I would settle for direct to DVD. Lol

um…direct to streaming?

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? (lol)

Be Free…