Inside Hollywood’s Turmoil: Is JJ Abrams’ Decline the Death Knell for Screenwriting’s Future?

There is only one exception to this: WRITER-DIRECTOR THEATRICAL PROJECTS. Sinners. One Battle After Another. The Secret Agent. All of those scripts take forever to set their stories up. But those guys are working under a different set of rules than you. And because their movies are shown in theaters, you are a captive audience and, therefore, can’t leave. So they know they can pull this crap. Trust me: If they were writers only, in which case they’d have to win readers over right away and, likely, audiences over right away (since their movies would probably debut on streaming), all of them would learn REAL FAST how to speed things up.