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In response to
"so then ... a movie like Good Will Hunting ... for the writers to be actors - was probably the most influence "first time script writers" could impart"
by
JenBro
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with GWH, as an indie in the late 90s (Miramax bought the script and produced), it was not a huge stretch to cast two unknowns in the leads
Posted by
peace machine (aka chris)
May 7 '10, 22:55
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who also happened to be the authors. if a studio like Fox or Paramount had bought that script, Ben and Matt would probably have been out at that point and more named talent (whoever was hot and young in 1997) would have been cast
but really so few scripts get made, compared to what even a successful pro writer writes over a career, that you can't afford to have too much pride of authorship. if someone believes in the script enough to buy it from you, most writers are going to be happy to take the check and run. unless you are a Diabo Cody situation, where you basically sell the first thing you write, you will likely have been around the block enough in this town to be pretty sanguine about your work being changed. notes are inevitable. a lot of the notes will be bad, some of them will be good. hopefully you are working with producers who believe in the story enough to not want to fuck it up terribly. but sometimes they want the script for what they want it to be, not what you think it should be. at the end of the day, it's their money and if you take their money, you can't really complain later if they ruin it.
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