A spec script, also known as a speculative screenplay, is a non-commissioned and unsolicited screenplay. It is usually written by a screenwriter who hopes...

on spec"), practicing their screenwriting with no guaranteed financial compensation. If one of these scripts is sold, it is called a spec script. Amateur...

most common forms of screenwriting jobs include: Spec scripts are feature film or television show scripts written without the commission of, but is on speculation...

reference is The Complete Guide to Standard Script Formats. A speculative screenplay or "spec script" is a script written to be sold on the open market with...

Tone Bell, Jake Weary, Gabriel Basso, and Anthony Michael Hall. The spec script for Trigger Warning was first acquired by Thunder Road Films in June...

Hatten, who also contributed to the third and fourth films, wrote a spec script intended for a spin-off. Wiseman was appointed director in October 2019...

what footage to shoot to help tell the story. Shooting scripts are distinct from spec scripts in that they make use of scene numbers (along with certain...

Particle, a spec script from Oren Uziel, which had the main plot of the space-station crew but was unconnected to Cloverfield. The script was acquired...

success of his film Barbarian (2022), Zach Cregger began work on a new spec script titled Weapons. It has been described as a "horror epic" with a more...

six films, ten novels, and two comic books. It is based on an unused spec script by Jeffrey Reddick, originally written for the television series The...

Additional typical roles during filming include the script supervisor to record changes to the script and the still photographer to produce images for advertising...

adaptation of "The Captain's Log" began when Schut wrote the initial spec script when he befriended a colleague who worked on Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)...

lives of those who were meant to die on the plane. The film began as a spec script written by Reddick for an episode of The X-Files in order for Reddick...

Dyke released a spec script titled Don't Worry Darling; the screenplay appeared on the 2019 Black List. A film based on the spec script was announced in...

directed by Olivia Wilde from a screenplay by Katie Silberman, based on a spec script by Silberman, Carey Van Dyke, and Shane Van Dyke. Starring Florence Pugh...

daughter. Development on Rush Hour began in 1995, after LaManna wrote a spec script, which was first initially sold to Hollywood Pictures with Ratner and...

the two leading characters, Shyamalan began to write Unbreakable as a spec script during post-production on The Sixth Sense. Jackson recalled meeting Willis...

In May 2020, Tomlin sold a spec script, titled 2084, to Paramount Pictures. By September 2020, Tomlin wrote the script for Mother/Android, with the...

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Netflix picked up the script and Matt gave the Santa character a bigger part in the story for Kurt Russell. Lieberman's spec script, Free Guy, was bought...

StudioCanal and The Picture Company had acquired Role Play, a thriller spec script written by Seth Owen, based on an original idea by George Heller, to...

The Message failed to attract the studios, Feldman re-wrote it as a spec script, which ultimately led to the making of the film. The extraterrestrial...

collection of short films dealing with issues faced by young gays, and a spec script about the relationship between a straight man and a gay man. More recently...

René Echevarria and Travis Beacham, based on Beacham's unproduced film spec script, A Killing on Carnival Row. Starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne...

February 2001, Ehren Kruger sold his spec script to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). With Gilliam's hiring as director, the script was rewritten by Gilliam and Tony...

Bota, the original script was written by Neal Marshall Stevens. As with Hellraiser: Hellseeker it began as an unrelated spec script, which was subsequently...

More elaborate forms of the draft treatment are the step outline and the scriptment. The presentation treatment is created as presentation material. Scene...

Gone in 60 Seconds. Development on the film began in 2000 when Schut's spec script was purchased by MGM. The project moved from MGM to Columbia Pictures...

students and staging their deaths as suicides. Waters wrote Heathers as a spec script and originally wanted Stanley Kubrick to direct the film, out of admiration...

Kolstad wrote a spec script titled Scorn, the inspiration for which came from two "terrible revenge movies" he had watched. The script's story centered...