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...

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...

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...

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

spec script titled Maximum King!, which focuses on Stephen King during production on his only directorial feature film, Maximum Overdrive. The script...

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...

learns that cheating Death has deadly consequences. The film began as a spec script written by Reddick for an episode of The X-Files in order for Reddick...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

an older version of the war hero. The film was written as an original spec script by first-time writer Espen von Ibenfeldt and later purchased by Motion...

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...

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...

Guild of America can submit scripts to producers directly. Agents try to create buzz in the script market using spec script. With everyone in the entertainment...

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...

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...

Paul Whitemore Sam Parsonson as Frank Sturgess Fear Below began as a spec script written by Matthew Holmes and Gregory Moss, who were passionate about...

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...

having multiple spec scripts featured in The Black List, an industry log of highly regarded but unproduced screenplays, including his scripts for Jane Got...

state. He released the novel Famous People in 2019. In 2021, Kuritzkes's spec script Challengers was featured on the annual edition of The Black List, which...

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