b2: assignments are how feature writers make a living, so i don't think there are many jobs that they feel bad about taking
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where the deaths come in is more after the script is written, when everyone else weighs in with their notes. so even if the writer and the producer might have been on the same page about what the story should be (even Detective Pikachu) before the first draft, once the studio reads it, the lead actor(s) read it, god knows who else, they could choose to keep all, some, or nothing of what the writer came up with.
and then, in the end, because of other factors out of the writer's control (maybe the director or one of the leads suddenly drops out at the last minute before shooting starts), the picture might not even go with whatever Frankenscript everyone agrees upon in the end.
any pro who's been writing long enough knows this is how features work and rarely takes it personally, from what i've heard and seen. but it also is why so many are praising god for the whole shift in drama to television, where they can tell real stories largely without interference from the suits and know that what they write will be in existence and on the air eight days later
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