Screenplay Rewrites

It's not unusual for a screenplay to need rewriting or doctoring. In fact, it's very common, especially in Hollywood. Different writers bring different strengths to the table.

Perhaps you wrote a screenplay yourself, and while you like some of it, you just don't think it succeeds the way you had hoped. Maybe you hired a screenwriter to write a script based on your idea, and the writer failed to realize your vision; it just wasn't what you wanted.

Regardless, this is not a hopeless situation - help is on the way! If you desire help...

After years of critiquing screenplays for others, and as a screenwriting instructor, allow me to share this obervation: It is much easier to identify weaknesses in the screenplays of others than it is in your own work, and very often you need someone with some distance to take a crack at the material.

I will rewrite your screenplay, or I will doctor it. The difference is I receive secondary credit on a screenplay I rewrite, and I receive no credit on a screenplay I doctor.

My fee for rewriting a screenplay is $2,000 and my fee for doctoring a screenplay is $2500. I can do the work in four weeks. I require half my fee upfront, and half upon completion of a first draft. I include one round of additional revisions in my fee. You retain all rights.

You're so close, but you just need someone to whip what you have into its best possible form!

Contact me at digital guerrilla cinema at gmail dot com

Photo: KateLynn E. Newberry and Dominic Luongo in Widow's Point, which I adapted from the book by Richard Chizmar & William Chizmar.