“Unlocking the Secret: How I Secured 10 Feature Script Deals in Just Four Years—No Agent Needed!”
The First Few Assignments
The first one didn’t go to script, but I made some money with the pitch and outline. But then they offered me another assignment that tasked me with rewriting a script for a two-part, four-hour action miniseries called Blackout.
I read the original script and told them I would need to do a page-one rewrite, which basically means that the concept and some of the characters would be the only thing I’d keep, but everything else would be mine.
Because they had pre-sold it to foreign territories and needed to get production going, I had just two and a half weeks to write a 250-page script. I delivered—as a pro must—and the project went on to star the likes of the late Anne Heche, Bruce Boxleitner (Tron!), James Brolin (father of Josh Brolin and iconic actor in his own right), Haylie Duff, Eric La Salle, Sean Patrick Flanery, and Billy Zane, among others.
