Sentence examples for spec screenplay from inspiring English sources

As if those weren't sufficient hooks for an opening chapter, Bridget learns that her agent likes the spec screenplay she has been writing.

The concept of Alien vs. Predator originated from the Aliens versus Predator comic book in 1989, and was hinted at when an Alien skull appeared in a trophy case aboard the Predator ship in Predator 2. Screenwriter Peter Briggs created the original spec screenplay in 1990 1991, which was based on the first comic series.

After reading one of my spec screenplays, GH's Executive Producer (EP) offered me a sample.

McCarthy's first-spec screenplay doesn't give much leeway to actors, larded as it is with wordy disquisitions – not all of them artfully integrated – on morality and death and bloodshed.

She fiddles, on spec, with a screenplay of Graham Greene's novel "The Heart of the Matter" and looks down on her husband for earning peanuts in a "city of zillionaires" (even though, with his grudging support, she left her job as a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney's office to bear children).

It refers to the first meet-and-greet meeting that development executives and producers hold with screenwriters that have showcased talent through a spec script -- a screenplay written independently by the screenwriter under speculation that it will be sold.

In 2003, Sorkin was writing a screenplay on spec about the story of inventor and television pioneer Philo Farnsworth, a topic he had first become familiar with back in the early 1990s when producer Fred Zollo approached him with the idea of adapting a memoir by Elma Farnsworth into a biopic.

At that point, they began writing screenplays on spec, which got them some meetings and some work.

Million-dollar deals for original screenplays, called spec scripts, have become almost as rare as a new movie from Mr. Eszterhas.

In return, Disney purchased Shyamalan's screenplay at a "spec script record" for $5 million.

During pre-production of Beetlejuice, Burton hired Caroline Thompson, then a young novelist, to write the Edward Scissorhands screenplay as a spec script.