Friday, September 9, 2011

What I Learned from Reading a Hundred Crappy Pilots

This was the summer of "meh."

I read about 125 screenplays total. They were of all varieties and genres, from the almost painfully mundane to the beyond fantastic. I read one or two gems, scripts that really blew my mind. However, the overwhelming majority this year were, for lack of a better way of putting it, just okay. It took me a long time to figure out why.