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A new screenwriter I was recently working with asked me this question after I told him his first draft was very good. "What'll it take to make it a great script?"
My answer surprised him. I said that the "greatness" of a script will come down the road. No script, no matter how good when it goes out into the world, will go without being rewritten to suit the feedback of the director, producer, actor and even the writer after he's given his "very good" script some distance.
Scripts that are considered very good when they're bought get rewritten or at least retooled. Same with scripts that are very very good.
Most scripts get rewritten right before shooting starts. They call this a production rewrite. It's done to fine tune loose ends and what not.
And then there's the revisions that happen on the set when the director or an actor has an idea that nobody thought of.
Point is, get your script to a point where it's as good as it can be and then get it out to your agent (if you have one) or use it to get an agent. How do you know it's as good as it can be? Have three people who will read it and be truthful. Not your girlfriend or boyfriend who likes everything you do.
Worry about the greatness later. |
