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Originally Posted by novakru
Rod...did ya ever consider writting something truly horrendous and fucked-up and selling it to Sci-Fi?
Then, you have nothing to get butchered and hammered by the jackals, but still get a nice fat paycheck:D
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Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. I've never sold anything to SciFi Channel. They decide what they want a movie to be about (whatever creature effect the designers think they can render) and they hire writers to make it. They don't "buy" scripts, they commission them.
For the SciFi Channel gigs I'm a contractor working with a very specific formula. Actually a repeating 12 page formula in which the monster must be shown and someone has to die every 12 pages.
And the paycheck ain't exactly fat. They hire exclusively non-union writers to do the work for less than scale. I made bupkiss, but I now have produced credits, which are far more valuable than the cash I was paid.