[THE COMPETITION] PITCHES OPEN ON THURSDAY

Let the competition begin.

All right, I think we’re ready to go on this. We’ll be opening the portal for our script competition on Thursday.

Here’s a link to my previous post restating the rules, submission guidelines, rewards, and what not.

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Two additional things I want you to be aware of:

• We’re going to keep the portal open for either 30 days or until we get 100 submissions (whichever comes first). We also won’t be doing any pre-readings of early submissions or keeping a ‘yes’ and ‘no’ pile as things roll in. We’ll collect every submission and then go through them all at once -- which seems like the fairest way to judge these.

• The portal information will be pretty straightforward. It covers your personal identification (name, email, etc.), script submission and legal documentation.

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Finally, in the discussion of the previous update on this someone asked about how to format a one paragraph, high concept pitch and I said I’d provide an example.

So here’s one from the second greatest (okay, maybe third or fourth, whatever) F4 run of all time:

“After the Fantastic Four return from a difficult mission, a troubled Reed Richards decides to activate an experimental multiversal machine he has built. When he does, he meets hundreds of other Reed Richards from other realities who have banded together to eliminate the problems facing all their universes -- to literally save everyone and ’solve everything’. And because this is what Reed -- and every Reed that has ever existed  -- was born to do, he is tempted to join them. The only catch? Reed learns that solving everything could possibly cost him his family.”

Or something like that.

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Okay, best of luck.

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