Happy Monday!
• We have producers in Singapore actively seeking Asian-American writers for collaboration on upcoming projects. This is exactly the kind of authentic partnership the industry needs more of.
• A Lit Management with a production arm is actively looking for romance projects under $25m for a financier.
• 3 Separate execs from different production companies want to read more TV pilots set in worlds we're not yet familiar with. Bonus point for procedurials.
Pro tip from the grapevines: executives who are buying aren't just looking for great scripts, they want writers who understand their brand and can deliver multiple projects. Think franchise potential, not just one-offs.If you can create your own IP, whether it's a short story, blog, podcast, or any other original content, you're way ahead of the game. Executives love writers who can build their own worlds and audiences.
What's Next:
We'll be posting these specific opportunities as OWAs in the Writers' Room and sharing even more insider intel in our member-only lounge. But I wanted to reach out directly...do you have any projects that fit these buckets? Let us know so we can keep an eye out for the perfect match.
The industry is hungry for great content, and the opportunities are there. Keep writing, keep creating, and let's get your work in front of the right people!
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Hey, Geoffroy Faugerolas. Happy Monday. Thanks for the info and pro tip. I have a short script called Department of Fairy Tales that has franchise potential. I'm also outlining a Fantasy/Action feature script that has franchise potential.
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I have scripts set in Colombia, Venezuela, Yemen, Myanmar/Thailand/Turkey. How's that for new worlds? Geoffrey, you said to let you know.
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Absolutely! Writers' Room members will be able to submit to these opportunities via the Open Writing Assignments but please do feel free to share the loglines here as well so that we can review the projects and keep them in mind.
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Here's the logline for Department of Fairy Tales: A lone agent who works for a secret agency and her first partner try to catch the Gingerbread Man before he ships mind-control cookies worldwide.
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Thank you, sir. I don't get loglines. You can judge a project by a 26 words sentence? I know many people on here will mock my question. But is it valid?
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Jon Shallit I wouldn't judge the whole project but the logline would give me a sense of what the project is, who the audience is, tone, plot, potential cast, market viability...a lot can be learned from a logline and there's truly nothing more crucial than logline to catch the interest of anyone in this industry. Think of it as a little teaser. You won't know if the triple chocolate molten lava cake with raspberry coulis is delicious until you try it...but you have to want to try it in the first place. Food metaphors aside, I'm used to reading thousands and thousands of loglines for matchmaking purposes and it's one of your greatest selling tool as writer.
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Hey Geoffroy, thanks for sharing this info. One question about the worlds mentioned in the tv pilots: would you have comps for similar worlds? For example, would it be more grounded or more futuristic? Thanks!
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Thank you.
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Amazing! Waving my Asian American flag over here. I'll definitely be sending in FIRST PERSON (feature comedy): Frustrated half-Korean writer, deep in quarter-life crisis, proofreads the memoirs of a renowned American historian, but ends up writing a wildly fictitious parallel life story, the success of which upends both their lives.
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And REVOKABLE TRUST (TV pilot): An unexpected friendship with a gay concert pianist upends the picture perfect Martha’s Vineyard life of a high-achieving Korean-American tech executive whose slow-burn dissatisfaction with her ho-hum husband bursts into crisis when she discovers he’s stolen her identity to cover up his failed investments.