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This award-winning director from an action genre recently held a contest among several groups of interns. The contest involved the interns writing a screenplay which would be submitted to a group of Hollywood insiders. The best script would be turned into a film that he, himself would direct. After getting an overwhelming response from the interns, the director decided he had ‘no interest in reading that many scripts’ and scrapped the whole project, leaving the interns disappointed and scratching their heads why they never got a response.
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What a jerk!!
Lesson learned, life sucks.
Well lets hope he means it and one of those scripts don't turn up as his next film.
Michael Bay. He was too busy having hotties wash his car as an audition for his next POS film to read that much.
@ MISCH - That's what I was expecting to be the punchline.
I don't know if Michael Bay is "award winning."
I'm thinking John Woo......
Sounds like something Brett Ratner would do. He's on that level of doucheiness. He hasn't won any awards though, so he's out.
Definitely a douche move, but let's be real: This kind of shit happens all the freakin time in the real world at your job. So, in a way, the director was doing the kids a favor. So many of today's youth are coddled. This was probably a punch-in-the-face that can help them later in life.
I just hope it's not Abrams.
Michael Bay. He seems like a big A hole.
According to Wiki, Bay is award winning... and not just MTV Movie Awards!
I don't really buy this blind. Big-time directors don't read scripts until they've already been read by his or her assistant(s) anyway. They would only give him the best two or three to consider. This sounds like a fake blind.
James Cameron. He won an Oscar for Titanic but is more known for action films like Avatar and Terminator.
Ridley or Tony Scott.
One of those scripts may turn up, and then they will find that they can get screwed in the Business both before and after their movie gets made.
I'm on Team Snakeoiler. If they try to sell these scripts elsewhere, because those scripts were created while in Producer's employ the interns may have already given them them to him as works made for hire. They'd better get those copies back, fast. And get copies of *anything* they signed in order to get those internships.
Amazon launched a script writing program that basically was the writer getting screwed out of any profits if the movie is a hit.
I haven't heard any success stories from it so far.
Most of these guys don't read that many scripts to begin with. They read "coverage", then only read the scripts based on the coverage that they liked. Well, more producers than directors do this. But the Michael Bays and Brett Ratners of the world are not spending their time digging through stacks of scripts looking for the next gem, that's for sure. That's for lowlier people to do FOR them.
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