Quote: (06-22-2013 03:27 PM)Don Juan Tenorio Wrote:
Quote: (06-22-2013 01:56 PM)Neil Skywalker Wrote:
Quote: (06-22-2013 11:04 AM)Don Juan Tenorio Wrote:
Break a leg man. Have you thought self-making the movie? Otherwise you'll have to face all the censorship, pc and lost of creative control of your movie under the dictate of those who pay for it.
Maybe crowdfunding, something like they did in this movie:
http://en.cosmonautexperience.com/
You need a studio to make a movie so much as you need a publishing house to distribute a book nowadays.
Can't go low budget with a movie like this.
If the script gets bought and made (that's not always a given) then yes, a lot will probably change from the original spec script. Can go both ways though. Either improvement of changes for the negative.
How high would your budget be? This movie I mentioned rised circa 300.000 $ mainly among hipsters from Europe and Latin America and 700.000 $ extra $ from other private and public sources. Just imagine what you could do with the PUA audience and the manosphere alone.
Raising $300K through crowdfunding will be next to impossible for this project. This project isn't something that enhances lives for others. Nor is it a "feel-good" project like helping some kid with cancer.
Take a look at the statistics on Kickstarter, the largest crowdfunding organization. You'll see that $300K is way over what most people are getting. $300K isn't nearly enough to make this movie correctly so that means you need to raise even more money. A studio may help if they love the project but I'm not sure they will. Not saying it's a bad project but there are literally thousands of scripts received every day. The chance of your script being seen and read is relatively low. Studios tend to stick with guys they know which lowers your chances even more.
I said before that it would be difficult to get this made and it's definitely a long shot. Not saying it can't be done but I would view it as a marathon, not a sprint. If you're extremely lucky, the script may get sold. If you're even more lucky you might hit the jackpot. I could be wrong but I think you'd be well-served to have an agent assist you. In the end, if you make $50K-$100K I would be overjoyed.
What I believe is this:
1) You probably do not need to go to
Hollywood to get the script sold. If anything you might want to try and get an agent to sell it for you.
2) Okay, you're already going to
Hollywood - think of it as a long-term mining expedition. At the very least you should get a couple of hundred business cards and make network, network, network. Hopefully you'll make sure you have plenty of business cards.
3) Even if you sell the script, this doesn't mean it will be made into a movie. If by chance it is made into a movie, there's probably not a chance in hell Neil Skywalker will be the main character. Think about it, what studio is going to let someone who has never acted before to be their star? From a business standpoint, it's highly unlikely. Stallone did it but I don't see it happening unless you retain complete control. Again, this seems highly unlikely.
4) I would suggest contacting some Indie filmmakers as opposed to studios. While they may not have the budget to make a 20 million dollar movie, the successful ones know how to get movies made with far less.
5) Also, have you thought about contacting the film festivals around the world? Some give grants for films. There are various film making organizations that give grants too.
One other thing...if nobody picks it up and says, "we'll make the film," raise as much money as you can and do the film in stages. That is, get half of it filmed. Raise more money, get the other half filmed. Raise more money and then get the post-production completed. Finally, get in with a distribution company or raise money to market the film yourself.
As I said, a friend of mine makes documentaries for a living. I was in one of his films that wasn't a documentary and saw how he he did everything. It was low budget (maybe $400K) but he managed to sell it in various markets and make his money back. We all ended up in Cannes promoting it, which was a lot of fun. He had fun but of course, he was stressed out as quite a bit of the money was his own.
One of the guys in the flick was in the movie Bad Boys (he got killed) and the main chick was in some big budget movies, one was with Arnold. The filmographer (or whatever they're called) is now married to Julia Roberts. The distribution team sent Mischa Barton to France to help. At the time she was young, guarded by Mom, but looking good. So it was a big deal for me and a huge eye opener. And this was pretty small-time.
I'm sure you'll learn a lot by being in
Hollywood and I think it's great you're going for it but even selling the script should be considered a success IMO.
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