Well the script is now done and copyrighted and is currently being prepped for several screenwriting contests. Unfortunately, the hard part has just begun.
All the time and effort that actually went into writing the script is nothing next to the task of condensing a 110 page screenplay into a 1 to 3 sentence synopsis that better sizzle like a marinated rib-eye. If it's not catchy, current, hip and bankable you're most likely sunk before you've ever left the port.
So, let the games begin.
I've been trying to think of other movies and what their pitchlines must have sounded like. For instance, "Forrest Gump" might have read:
'Obsessive runner glides through history-making events while speaking with a somewhat strange vocal cadence and searching for his true love in the form of a drugged promiscuous folk singer.'
That sounds like a movie to greenlight, eh?
So, maybe it might not make or break you if you can't find the right tagline for your movie. On the other hand when you're a fledgling screenwriter and a novice in the business every little bit counts.
And on that note I'm back to the drawing board . . .
-BDS
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