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Originally Posted by latepaul
Until relatively recently I used to follow a screenwriters newsgroup and my impression is that there's anything but a scarcity of wannabe script writers. What there is is still gatekeepers.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It's an industry that puts out about 600 products a year and three-quarters are low-budget Indie productions.
Compared to even traditional publshing that puts out on the order of 40,000 titles a year in the US and the UK each.
You probably have better odds of winning a lottery than getting a script filmed and distributed. Unless you do it yourself.
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That was kind of my point.
It's all about who the buyer is - the buyer for a book is the reader. So there's no scarcity for the book-buyer. The buyer for a script is a production company, the movie viewer is the buyer of the movie itself. So whilst there's a scarcity of movies (only ~600) there's an abundance of scripts (or script-writing services technically since even though spec scripts occasionally get made they'll almost certainly be more drafts before it gets shot).