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@Sweetie - Indeed, the quality of the script must come first. @film_autre - Thanks for the recommendation! @Scripts & Scribes - Thanks for your detailed information, I appreciate your time and input!

What I wanted to get out of this thread, and for others to get out of it, is information from those who have had success in writing and then selling a spec script regarding the process in detail from A to Z. What are the steps that are necessary, and what should screenwriters be aware of as well?

I understand you wish to set this in a world where women dominate, but this still just appears to be an isolated incident in your story. You need to add more to the story that sells the idea that the world of your story is such that women are the ones who dominate over men. Perhaps you could...

It seems like you were meant to write that screenplay then Filman :) I recently did a writing course. Not for screenwriting but for novel writing. One of the things I can carry over from that course is a way that I can approach my scriptwriting. The main reason I have stuck with writing short...

When I was a teenager I first attempted a feature length script. From memory it was a sci-fi comedy/parody that took a lot of sci-fi films and turned certain scenes from them into something funny. I can't remember how many pages I ended up typing but I want to say it was more than 40, however I...

It really depends on how you view the cop character, and what you would like to do with the character because if he's going to be a cliche cop character, then following him as the protagonist will get boring for the audience. I'd look at both characters and do a side by side comparison in terms...

Well what if when the criminal first joined the gang he was present on a job and while the job was successful, because he was kinda like a rookie, he made a mistake of some kind. But you don't need to show this. Fast forward to the present time in your story, the criminal is given a job to do...

Well an experiment would be to take the other character, and rewrite the entire screenplay except from his perspective. Give his story a beginning, middle, and an end. Once you've done that, and you can even do it in flash card form, or something similar even if it's just scene outlines, see how...

A plot hole is something which doesn't make sense compared to something that happened earlier. For example if your character is a vegetarian who doesn't eat meat, and you have a scene where he gets into an argument with someone about his decision to be one, if all of a sudden in the next scene...

You might be able to turn this into a buddy cop type thing. If you have one of the criminals defect, he could go to the police to cut a deal with them that requires him to give them all the information he knows in exchange for his freedom, and they assign your main cop character to be his...

H44, I think you might also need to focus on one thing at a time. Maybe take your protagonist and write up a detailed bio of them. You can do this with all your characters, no matter how big or small their role is. Then with that information formulate a treatment. I don't know what pre-planning...

This is an interesting article about the films that inspired Alien. I thought I would share it because it brings up interesting points about story telling and about the different ways stories have been told, and how there's a thread running through a lot of them that takes what has come before...

In Interstellar, at the beginning of the film, there's people being interviewed for a documentary. And It depends really. The main question to ask yourself is this - will this be more than just a gimmick? To me it's like the found footage films that have come out over the years. Not all are...

@FantasySciFi: Definitely be cautious of applying it too directly to screenwriting.

H44, ultimately it's up to you to take the advice you've received, both the good and the bad, and decide if you agree or not. If you agree then incorporate, if you disagree then ignore. Rewriting, restructuring - these are part of the territory.

This isn't specifically related to screenwriting, but it is a lecture that contains information that might be useful for screenwriters as it also deals with the art of writing, character points of view, and other aspects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXAvF9p8nmM

Maybe the cop could be interrupted by an emergency or urgent situation, something meaningful and needs to be dealt with properly and can't be put off until later. That way there's a valid reason why he would leave early instead of just doing so because he wasn't patient. Unless you want his lack...

It would be more suspenseful if he waited a bit and then followed them inside, being careful not to alert them to his presence. Once inside the building he could be slowly walking up some stairs and there's a creak from one of the steps. One of the villains hears this and is about to investigate...

It works really well in Die Hard because he's saying aloud what the audience may be thinking too. You have to remember that Die Hard was a unique action film at the time. It was 1988 and movies like Commando and Rambo: First Blood Part II for example, had come out earlier that decade and in...