“Unveiling the Truth: Is Your Script’s Page Count the Secret to Hollywood’s Heart—or Just a Myth?”

"Unveiling the Truth: Is Your Script's Page Count the Secret to Hollywood's Heart—or Just a Myth?"

Why? As we discussed above, one page equals money that needs to be spent. In fact, one line of scene description or dialogue costs money.

Here’s an insider’s point of view on this. When I hand in my “final” draft and the movie gets greenlit, I know a production rewrite is coming. Why? Because they are going to look for every way they can to save money. Most of the time, that means combining scenes or cutting pages (usually a mixture of both).

For the umpteenth time—page count matters.

Script Page Count From a Pro Script Reader’s Perspective

Before I hit it off as a pro screenwriter, I worked on the other side of the table in development for Sony Pictures. I was a pro script reader, paid by the studio to read scripts and write coverage.

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