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...

films. Lionsgate acquired Hatten's spec script for the film in 2017, leading to him contributing to the final script for Parabellum and serving as the...

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...

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...

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...

films, ten novels, and two comic books. It is based on an unproduced spec script by Jeffrey Reddick, originally written for The X-Files television series...

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...

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...

was written as a spec script by Brian Duffield in 2019. In April 2021, it was reported that 20th Century Studios had acquired the script, with Duffield...

success of his 2022 film Barbarian, Zach Cregger began work on a new spec script titled Weapons. Described as a "horror epic" heavily inspired by Paul...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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

Terrance Huffy-Schwinn Steph Tolev as Steph Paul Walter Hauser as Tracy The spec script for Old Dads was noted in 2020. In March 2022, it was announced that...

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...

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Bartholomew Sope Dirisu as J.D. William Houston as Erikas Zach Dean wrote a spec script for The Gorge that was later voted onto the Black List of the most-liked...

began in 2005, when Reese and Wernick originally wrote the film as a spec script for a television pilot. Fleischer helped develop the teleplay into a...

graduating became a storyboard artist at Filmation Studios. Simon submitted a spec script for the sitcom Taxi, which was produced, and he later became the series'...

original spec script was more of a science-fiction thriller, with the story set in New York City. Producer Scott Rudin purchased the script and set up...

a sales assistant for Tower Records in 1991, Walker began writing a spec script called Seven, which is set in an unnamed, bleak and gloomy city that...

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...

Shannon Tweed Scorned (2014 film) The Scorned, a 2005 film Scorn, a spec script that would later become the 2014 film John Wick Scorn (band) "Scorn"...

October 14, 2011, it was announced that 20th Century Fox had acquired the spec script The Three Misfortunes of Geppetto, a prequel to The Adventures of Pinocchio...

spec script for the film in November 2016, and compiled a list of songs into his screenplay. After telling major studios to avoid buying the script if...