“Unearthed Secrets: The Shocking Truth Behind the Unreleased ‘Fantastic Four’ Movie That Could Have Changed Superhero History”
Here’s a tangent screenwriting lesson to be learned.
The studio system has changed. Studios—and their TV network and streamer counterparts—produce very few movies each year. And the ones they normally do are IP-based projects:
Pitching directly to these corporately owned companies isn’t worth your trouble. They don’t accept unsolicited material anyway.
Instead, production companies are the way to go. They are tasked with most content and talent acquisition and development. While many of the bigger production companies may be hard to pitch to, you can go to the smaller production companies that you see logos of at the beginning of most movies adapted from original screenplays.
