Selling your first screenplay?

Question by ld12o1: Selling your first screenplay?
I’ve been writing since I was 12 (i’m 22) but have no published/credited work with exception of poems. In terms of selling your first movie script, people say to write one for indie filmmakes but is it possible to write a blockbuster type feature and still be able to sell it even thoughs its your first script?

I know it’s harder that way but I just want to know if it’s possible…

I would LOVE to write an indie script but i’m working off of ideas i’ve had in my mind for a long time

Best answer:

Answer by Russell C
No producer will even open the envelope your screenplay arrives in.
Actually, he won’t even see the envelope or know of its existence. Some office junior will toss it in the bin with the other dozen screenplays that arrived the same day.
There are two reasons why no producer or production company will look at a screenplay that does not come from a legitimate agent. The first is they don’t have time to wade through what is 99% rubbish. The second is the need to protect themselves against later allegations of plagiarism and theft of is intellectual property.
Even screenplays that are delivered from agents go to readers, not to producers. a reader may be staff or freelance and will read (all or part of) between three and five screenplays a day. For the ones they consider might be appropriate for their boss or client they write a cover; one typed page comprising a synopsis, their evaluation and notes.
A studio of which I was a Vice-President for many years was sued by a writer for stealing his idea and story. There was a lot at stake, and not just money.
It was not until our investigators proved that the writer had not not written even one page of his script until three years after we had signed off on the screenplay we filmed that the suit was dropped.
Keep writing but you will need to get an agent.

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