Maybe it's time to get that idea out of your head and into a complete movie script - and into the movie theaters.
Yes, you can sell a script. There are no guarantees and it takes real belief in your idea and the willingness to take a risk. Yet, it happens everyday. Selling a screenplay is not about talent and connections. It's about skills and experience.
You could go out and learn the necessary movie script writing skills, apply those skills until you get the experience, then hit the pavement to sell your work. Most writers spend years learning screenwriting and churn out thousands of pages of practice writing before they come close to selling their movie script. But if you have a day job, or a business to run, or a family to take care of or... well, you get the picture.
Give Yourself the Same Advantage That Screenwriting Pros Enjoy
You might have a great movie idea but little time to study and practice screenwriting. You may even have a complete screenplay plot worked out. Or, maybe you've found a true crime case that would make a ripping detective movie. Want someone to turn your idea into a finished movie script?
That's what the Pro Movie Writer Service is here for. The Pro Movie Writers will work with you to develop your story idea and then write that idea into a complete film script. It's not easy, it's not cheap, but it's well worth the effort if you believe in your idea and yourself. It also offers significant financial upside: many scripts now sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This screenwriting service costs about $5000, but if your idea is sound, we may agree to lower the initial cost and share in any script sales proceeds. Each case is assessed on an individual basis, but the final choice is always yours. Pro Movie Writer is a group of professional screenwriters and screenwriter consultants. PMW screenwriters and advisors include a former movie studio development executive, an author/screenwriter, a noted screenplay consultant and screenwriting textbook author, and a Sundance award winner. One of us will personally ghostwrite a screenplay from your idea and story.
We want to write the best screenplay possible and will do all we can to ensure you get the most from the experience!
The Screenwriting Development and Writing Process
First, we will help you "find" the story you want to tell. This is a back-and-forth process which, done correctly, will lay the proper groundwork for a good movie script. Then one of our writers will write the first draft script in 3 sections, roughly following the common 3-act screenwriting structure. Finally, after you and another consultant review the script and offer comments for improvement, we will write a revised final draft and give you a plan for getting the screenplay out for possible sale.
Screenwriting Fees and Payment Options
A complete screenplay is $5000, less if you and we agree to share the proceeds in the event of a sale of the screenplay. Monthly payments suited to your budget are acceptable with a major credit card.
How to Get Started
Just fill out the simple form below and tell us about yourself and what you are trying to accomplish with your movie. We will contact you as soon as possible and let you know if your movie project seems like something that we can pursue together. We guarantee complete confidentiality and non-disclosure. Your movie script idea remains yours and yours alone.
The screenwriters at Pro Movie Writer look forward to hearing from you.
At ProMovieWriter.com we will write your screenplay for you. But first, you – and we – will need the very best description of what your movie script is all about.
Here’s how to do this without getting lost.
What is the Basic Concept?
You probably have this in mind already. Something like: “A gambling-addicted detective’s wife frames him for murder, and he must break out of jail to prove his innocence.” Try to make this very brief and specific. After you read the guidelines that follow, come back to this section and see how most of the information needed to lay out your idea can be outlined in a single sentence.
What is the Theme or Lesson?
Every good story gives moviegoers a lesson in life, usually as the main character himself learns a lesson about how to live. No, you should not bash the moviegoer over the head with a heavy-handed “moral,” but you do want the moviegoer to see the hero grow and learn how to be a better person.
Whose Story is It?
Who is the Hero? He or she doesn’t have to be a perfect “good guy.” In fact, most movie heroes have some issue that they must resolve in order to live as better people (review Theme, above). In “Tootsie,” the main character must learn to treat women better and not be so selfish. Even our framed detective, in the Basic Concept above, has some character flaw that may have contributed to his predicament. You’ll remember that he has a gambling problem. To solve his external problem of being framed, he must learn why he gambles and how it has affected his life.
What is the Hero’s Goal?
In our Basic Concept example above, the hero’s goal is quite clear: to prove his innocence. But in many of the ideas pitched to us at Pro Movie Writer, the goal is murky at best. Make certain that your main character has a clear, external goal. Don’t confuse the detective’s goal of clearing himself of the false charges against him with his internal need to grow and change by the film’s end.
Who or What is Will Oppose the Achievement of Those Goals?
Most movies feature a strong character (the Villain – but don’t make her a cartoon character!) who opposes the main goal of the hero. There can be more than one villain working in cahoots (perhaps our detective’s wife is involved with another detective who also wants the hero in prison). In some films, the opposition may be nature (Twister) or an institution, or even the hero himself. But there must be opposition! And the hero must try and fail again and again, due to that opposition, before achieving success at the end of the movie.
How Does the Hero Try to Reach His Goals – and Fail Repeatedly?
We mentioned this above, but this is where so many screenplays falter - there is no real conflict, nothing standing between the hero and his goals. Let’s say the hero learns she is going to inherit a fortune. She hops in her car and drives across country, is handed the money and is happy. But we aren’t!
Try this: She hops in her car and it breaks down in Vegas in a thunderstorm. She has no money and calls a cousin for assistance. He seems to help but we learn that he is next in line for the inheritance and wants her out of the way. He and his allies now make her quest a seemingly impossible one. Every plan she makes fails and the danger escalates with every step. As your audience both fears for her safety and hopes for the best outcome for her predicament, they will be on an emotional roller coaster. And that is why they paid their fifteen bucks to see your movie.
Think it Through & Prosper
Spend time outlining your project, just as you would lay out a blueprint before building your home, to assure that your movie script is tightly constructed, engages the audience’s emotions, and is something that producers and agents will want to buy. Good luck.
