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Originally Posted by Roderick Usher
Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. I've never sold anything to SciFi Channel. They decide what they want a movie to be about (whatever creature effect the designers think they can render) and they hire writers to make it. They don't "buy" scripts, they commission them.
For the SciFi Channel gigs I'm a contractor working with a very specific formula. Actually a repeating 12 page formula in which the monster must be shown and someone has to die every 12 pages.
And the paycheck ain't exactly fat. They hire exclusively non-union writers to do the work for less than scale. I made bupkiss, but I now have produced credits, which are far more valuable than the cash I was paid.
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How does one get into said loop? I have plenty of old ideas that they would probably eat up.