The Screenwriter's Corner

Hawkins Productions: An Official Amazon.com Associate

An Open Letter From Hollywood

Dear Movie Goer,

We no longer care to even try. We just want as much of your money as easily and quickly as we can get it. We will ignore any and all scripts which we already possess and/or which we may be queried about. We will instead remake every film ever made and make films based on shit like Monopoly.

Signed,

Studio Execs Who Really Don’t Care What You Think As Long As We Get Paid

Monopoly????? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?????? ARE YOU SERIOUS?????? The bad news is…Yes they are serious!!!!! What’s worse is the Riddley Scott (THE Riddley Scott) is set to direct (as of now). Despite all the scripts that must be floating around Holly-Weird, not to mention the thousands written by yet to be discovered writers, the best that they can come up with is to remake movies and make films based on Board Games (Clue is also in the works).

It just blows me away that an industry with the resources and talent pool that Hollywood has (Lindsey Lohan and others excluded) the best the can seem to do is rehashes and films based on games. A trip to www.hawkprod.com or a few trips to triggerstreet.com or zoetrope.com will show you good to great (along with some horrible…make no mistake) scripts that would make better movies than the things coming out of Hollywood these days.

Do we really need another Alvin and the Chipmunks to show us the Jason Lee delivers all of his lines in the same tone of voice? Or is it time to at least pretend that they are trying? I guess in a way it makes sense. The conversation would probably be along the lines of:

Studio Exec: We’re making a movie about a serial killer called Halloween
.

Screenwriter: But wasn’t there already 8 or 9 of those made?

Studio Exec: Not like this. We’re going to re-imagine it.

Screenwriter: What’s that mean?

Studio Exec: It means that we hire you as a script consultant. You change one or two scenes…a bit of the dialog….Then we sit back and watch the money roll in. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Infinifilm Edition)
& Friday the 13th
are next!!

To me this is just more motivation to get my own stuff made and get it out there. I understand that there are only XXXX number of stories to be told (as the old saying goes), but come on!!! At least pretend to try Hollywood….Can’t you? Ok…I’m off of my soap box and my rant is finished. Thanks for letting me vent HaHaHa

Best of Luck and Life,
Jerry W. Hawkins
President
Hawkins Productions
www.hawkprod.com



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