The Business of Screenwriting: Anatomy of a Deal (Part 3)

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
2 min readAug 1, 2019

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“Bottom line: That single idea which we worked up as a pitch results in a sale and what eventually turns out to be a three-year overall deal with a major Hollywood movie studio.”

In Part 1, I describe how my writing partner and I met with Rodney Dangerfield’s ‘people’ and I came up with a high concept idea for a movie: Rodney Dangerfield: Mr. President.

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