Brian Helgeland (LA Confidential, Mystic River) The first thing to do is to is pick something worth writing about, which seems fairly obvious. You want to make it compelling and commercial. The thing about a commercial movie is all it has to do is make more money than it cost. So if your movie cost $10 to make and it makes $20, its commercial. You only have around 120 pages so it has to be structured. It has to drive forward. If you write a scene that is lateral, cut it out or make it do something. Make it drive you to the next moment because theres no time to mess around. Novelists can write 900 pages if they want. For a film, you can write between 100 and 140 pages, but theres not a lot of difference there. When you start writing a script, youre an architect and theres nothing creative about it – thats a slight exaggeration, but its true.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000
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