Platinum
03-24-2006, 05:55 AM
Hello, everyone. Check out the below excerpt from an article in the March issue of Script Magazine. (And you might want to check out the whole article, as it has some other good ideas about different avenues for getting you script seen.) If you are at all interested in having Platinum Studios see your script, go to www.screenwritersubmissions.com (a small website we've set up to hopefully answer all your questions) and check out our program there. Is this self-promotion? A bit, but I hope not enough to get me banned from this forum. I really just wanted to share this opportunity with you all, as we're eager to find great writers.
COMICS NOT A LAUGHING MATTER
From
GET OFF YOUR BUTT AND OFF THE SCRIPT STACK
By John Scott Lewinski
Script Magazine Vol. 12, no. 2
March 2006
While so many film projects are being jump-started from magazine articles, books and especially comic books, some writers might look to translate their feature script to a more comic-friendly format.
Platinum Studios is an entertainment company with an active stake in more than 2, 500 characters that have appeared in hundreds of millions of comics in 25 languages in more than 50 countries. According to Lee Nordling, Platinum's executive editor, the company's library is continually expanding through its comics acquisition and publishing program.
"I feel terrible for screenwriters who have to struggle just to get an industry exec to read what they write, " Nordling said. "I also can't imagine how many talented writers this process wastes per year. Platinum's own unique niche in Hollywood is to adapt from comics that have been previously published or that we will be publishing (or financing for publication). Studios understand that we draw on a different talent pool than more traditional production companies, a talent pool that includes a lot of new, talented writers.
"Where this has added value for us is that if the development of an adaptation of a comic falls through, we always have the source material with which to begin a new adaptation. This is much more difficult to do when a group is developing a project as an original screenplay and the direction for that screenplay needs to change. We prefer to develop from the comics medium as we believe that gives a property a life and history in an existing marketplace and offers a potential producing partner or studio a glimpse into the original vision of the story."
Nordling added a personal note: "I think it's cool for writers to have a completed story for the public to read which more closely reflects their original visions than most films are able to (due to the increasingly collaborative nature of film and television). "Anybody who looks at our web site can see that we have properties set up all over town-there's really quite a laundry list, so I recommend people check out our Platinum Studios News section on our site at Platinumstudios.com."
COMICS NOT A LAUGHING MATTER
From
GET OFF YOUR BUTT AND OFF THE SCRIPT STACK
By John Scott Lewinski
Script Magazine Vol. 12, no. 2
March 2006
While so many film projects are being jump-started from magazine articles, books and especially comic books, some writers might look to translate their feature script to a more comic-friendly format.
Platinum Studios is an entertainment company with an active stake in more than 2, 500 characters that have appeared in hundreds of millions of comics in 25 languages in more than 50 countries. According to Lee Nordling, Platinum's executive editor, the company's library is continually expanding through its comics acquisition and publishing program.
"I feel terrible for screenwriters who have to struggle just to get an industry exec to read what they write, " Nordling said. "I also can't imagine how many talented writers this process wastes per year. Platinum's own unique niche in Hollywood is to adapt from comics that have been previously published or that we will be publishing (or financing for publication). Studios understand that we draw on a different talent pool than more traditional production companies, a talent pool that includes a lot of new, talented writers.
"Where this has added value for us is that if the development of an adaptation of a comic falls through, we always have the source material with which to begin a new adaptation. This is much more difficult to do when a group is developing a project as an original screenplay and the direction for that screenplay needs to change. We prefer to develop from the comics medium as we believe that gives a property a life and history in an existing marketplace and offers a potential producing partner or studio a glimpse into the original vision of the story."
Nordling added a personal note: "I think it's cool for writers to have a completed story for the public to read which more closely reflects their original visions than most films are able to (due to the increasingly collaborative nature of film and television). "Anybody who looks at our web site can see that we have properties set up all over town-there's really quite a laundry list, so I recommend people check out our Platinum Studios News section on our site at Platinumstudios.com."