“I can’t help but be strangely proud of it. Because out of all the sucky movies, mine is the suckiest.” -J.D. SHAPIRO, writer of Battlefield Earth
Even the worst movies of our time didn’t start out that way. This article from the New York Post takes a look into some of the reasons why a script can start out good but still become a terrible movie.
While his is a cautionary tale, it is worth reading before you try to write your own script.
Let me start by apologizing to anyone who went to see “Battlefield Earth.”
It wasn’t as I intended — promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
