What studios want

Sometimes when you dig into articles in the trades, you find helpful nuggets on the screenwriting front. While this one is no earth-shattering revelation, it does tend to confirm what we’ve been talking about here for nearly four years. From the previous article about Warner Bros. and its project Akira:

Managers and agents say that their marching orders from Warners execs haven’t changed: give us another “The Dark Knight,” a tentpole project with either A-list stars and directors attached or with built-in awareness; give us a project that’s unique, that can cut through the clutter when the moviegoing public has growing numbers of choices.

So two things: (1) Franchise. (2) Unique.

Simple, right?

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