Just because it would be impossible to get the rights to sell your screenplay or make a movie from it, if the idea is novel enough it will get read – and likely remembered.Ī few years back a writer named Christopher Weekes won a survey of the best unproduced scripts with The Muppet Man – a biopic of the late, great Jim Henson. This is also a fine strategy in the world of screenwriting. He made something that was impossible to make money off of, but it got him the notoriety needed to start his career. Sad ending, right? No, because even though this work could never be legally released, the novelty of it was so fun and the end result so good that Danger Mouse made a name for himself, eventually hooking up with rising singer/rapper Cee-Lo Green to become one half of international sensation Gnarls Barkley just two years later. It got an underground release and a small pressing, but it was short lived as record company EMI – in charge of The Beatles at the time – commenced a lawsuit, forcing the commercial release of the album to be halted. In 2004, a mostly unknown DJ Danger Mouse mixed The Beatles’ White Album with Jay-Z’s Black Album to create The Grey Album - a fantastic mash-up of Jay-Z rapping over beats pieced together from White Album samples. The following are five types of un-filmable, not-likely-to-get-purchased screenplays that are still worth writing!ġ) The Inevitable Development Hell Script Why would you write a screenplay that no studio would want to purchase? Well because it’s sometimes these screenplays that get attention and become your calling card to the industry.
As such, writing a screenplay that’s un-filmable seems like a fool’s errand. That’s the ultimate goal, isn’t it? It’s with that in mind that most put pen to paper – or more likely put fingers to keyboard. Aspiring screenwriters share a big dream: Selling a screenplay.
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