beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
The classic “poor man’s copyright” is to mail the script to yourself in a sealed envelope and put it somewhere safe unopened. Then if anyone steals your idea you have a dated postmark on the envelope to prove when you created it. You definitely don’t have to worry about the studio stealing your idea though. They have systems in place that keep the people who read spec scripts isolated from other creative employees at the studio for that exact reason. Lawsuits are way more expensive that low balling an option offer.
Other people have pointed this out but the major studios don’t really buy spec scripts anymore. They want something that comes with an audience already so you either need to build that somehow on social media or write for existing IP (but you’d need to license it yourself). Before a good apec script might have been adapted into an existing IP like your spy being rewritten as Jason Bourne, but since VC money bought out the studios they want more than a good script to produce a film these says.
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 6 days ago
A body horror story about a pregnant woman who starts to think her unborn child might be the anti christ, and has terrifying dreams of the apocalypse, and seeks the aid of the Catholic church
… But with Minions!
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beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
That’s Rosemary’s Baby, minions and all. The minions in the movie just looked more like satanic cultists.