I'm a Hollywood Screenwriter (no, really). Ask me a question.

What are you doing here?

Do you consider the NWO agenda in your scripts? If so, wich side of the fence are you on?

Why does Hollywood produce such lame movies?

When are you guys gonna start making good movies again?

Tell us the most sick depraved thing you've seen by a person in power

Writer's block and boredom.

Besides, I love conspiracies in general. Lot of inspiration in them.

I've read shit on GLP hours before it turns up on the news, too.

Love me some GLP.

Yeah, your product sucks nowadays.

Propaganda is shitty art.

We are hungry for scandalous conspiracy, the more truth the better. Feed us if you dare!

No.

I happen to believe there's a version of the "NWO" that's true, mind you. But, it doesn't have anything to do with anything I've done, or seen.

did you sleep with Charlie Sheen?


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Same

You, me, and 10,000 people in Hollywood ask that question.

1- Money and marketing. This is why remakes and "reboots" and toys are made into movies. They don't have to spend 200 mill marketing it. You are already aware of the title. Thus, "new" ideas aren't as appealing.

2- Movies are made for the least common denominator. Half, or more, of the money these days is made "overseas". So, they're made for broad appeal to people for whom english is not a first language.

3- they think you're stupid. I have literally had a studio exec tell me he was smarter than his audience.

4- they are dumb. When you write a script, Studio Execs give you notes. Notes are "suggestions". Suggestions that you WILL do, or you're replaced. Problem is, the average studio exec is dumb as a box of wet hammers. So, there ya go.

Not yet.

But, the night is young.

R u the same one as last time

No, Sir.

How much of the bullshit in Hollywood is lifted from weirdo sites like this? It's like all I see nowadays are subtle or obvious conspiracy theory jabs.

Confirmed, this guy is legit. Or at least knows enough to fake it accurately. My gut is saying the former, but I've been wrong before.

Thanks, that explains it.

Don't really have any for you.

HOWEVER...

...I have written a few things about Government Surveillance, and even the NWO that were purchased. With much excitement.

Yet...inexplicably were squashed.

But, I've written things that had nothing to do with either, that were inexplicably squashed, too.

Can't say that's why. But, I have always wondered....

^THIS. One reason I personally enjoy GLP so much is the wealth of bizarre, twisted and unexpected ideas you find here. Not the big conspiracy theories as such, but the small what-if-that-were-true speculation and unexpected (theorized) connections between events and people. If I were an author (well, I am but I only write scientific articles), GLP would be an excellent place to fish for fresh ideas and viewpoints for a book or a movie.

Question: Hollywood movies are products that almost always seem to conform to a pretty predictable template. I'm interested in knowing how much are original scripts "massaged" by producers and financiers after they've been bought and are considered for production? Does the original author retain any rights over the script (e.g. refuse proposed changes)?

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How much? Man, I don't know.

I can tell you that I've lifted tidbits here and there. Or, at least, have been inspired by something I've read here. Or, in a place like here.

We're always hunting.

Thanks. Your gut is a wise one.

screenwriter my arse

Do you like final act of Casablanca?

Nothing is ever filmed exactly as it is written. That's happened like once. AMERICAN BEAUTY. Maybe more than once, but that's the only one I can recall.

Everything is "massaged", changed, rewritten, burned, blown up, stomped, fucked up, saved, fucked up again, rendered mediocre, etc etc etc.

There are many, many version of a script, before anything is shot. Even then, sometimes, you're rewriting it as it is shot. Studios, execs, money guys, actors, directors...everybody has an opinion. Really comes down to who you work with.

I've written things that were just me and two others between what got on screen and what was written. And, I've written things that had concentric rings of morons between page and screen.

As for right, you retail very little. When someone buys it, or pays you to right it, they effectively own it. The Writer's Guild has carved a few things. Like they have to come back to you for a sequel and try to make a deal. A few bits for residuals, etc.

Name a movie we might have seen
that started off well
but got fucked up.

what happened?


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sorry for the misspelling and grammar. just trying to be quick.

Hollywood screenwrites have it easy.

Just go watch an old movie and transcribe it. Throw a few modern changes in and make a great old movie suck.

If that fails, you can always transcribe some old sitcom and ruin that too.

and if that fails, you can always aim for white guilt, but that is getting old, and people aren't buying it anymore.

Not much originality left in the movie industry.

OP, how much cock did you have to suck in order to make it in Hollywood?