Screenwriters, when you write a spec script, should you write a second, fuller version?

Question by ld12o1: Screenwriters, when you write a spec script, should you write a second, fuller version?
I read in a book that when you write a spec, you don’t focus on all your characters and it’s basically like a detailed summary. So is there another draft of it I should write with more in it or is writing and selling spec fine because the producer and/or director will make any changes they want to it?

Best answer:

Answer by Gray Area
Your spec script should be a full script. If you’ve been asked for a treatment that’s one thing. That has less detail but a script is a script. Any completed script is going to go through changes by director and producer and not necessarily because of creative differences, often times it is simply budgetary considerations. Nevertheless, your spec script is not a detailed summary.

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