SWERVING THE GATEKEEPERS
The Hollywood Stitch-Up:
Gatekeepers, playing it safe, and why so many films are pure rubbish. The path for an aspiring screenwriter is blocked by a rigged system that decides which stories reach the screen. This whole system revolves around the script coverage readers—the ultimate gatekeepers—and their stranglehold on the business.
How Hollywood Actually Picks Scripts
The Bouncer Problem:
Script Coverage is where dreams go to die. Access is the biggest hurdle facing new writers. Of the 50,000+ scripts chucked at the Writers Guild of America every year, almost all of them have to get past a coverage reader (a.k.a. a story analyst).
The Blatant Filter:
The reader’s report—a quick synopsis and a "Pass," "Consider," or "Recommend"—is all the big wigs actually read. They haven't got time for your 100 pages. This report is the filter that can launch your career or kill it stone dead.
The Ten-Page Vibe Check:
Here's the tea: industry pros know if a script is a banger within the first ten pages. If you don't hook 'em by page ten, it's a "Pass," and your hard graft is dust. Coverage readers wield massive power over your future.
Why So Many Rubbish Films Get Made:
If the system is meant to find quality, why is the cinema flooded with garbage? It's not about quality; it's about covering their backsides. Hollywood runs on fear. A reader backing a risky, original script puts their neck on the line. If that project flops, they get the blame. As legend Ron Osborn says, "Nobody wants to read your script," because reading it is a liability.
The Deal is King:
Scripts get greenlit because they make money, not art. They bet on known IP—sequels, remakes, adaptations—because it reduces the financial risk.
Or the project involves a massive A-list director or star the exec needs to keep happy. Sometimes the film is just a tax write-off or content filler for a streaming service.
The Development Grind:
Even if you get picked, your script gets put through the wringer. "Too many cooks" dilute your vision until it's a watered-down mess. A good script without a champion dies; a mediocre one with a star attached gets the greenlight.
The Ultimate Screenwriter Cheat Code:
Traditional film school is a rip-off because it doesn't solve the access problem. Learning the craft is useless if the decision-makers never see it.
The Ultimate Screenwriter course offers a proper solution: We guarantee an active Hollywood producer will read the first ten pages of every graduate's screenplay.
The Ten Page Threshold Guarantee
This guarantee tackles the "ten-page rule" head-on. By ensuring a green-light producer sees your best work, we flip the odds. We have a 75% completion rate because our students are grafters. Better yet, 20% of those who complete the course get their film project greenlit. That’s one out of five. That is mental compared to the industry average.
The Ultimate Screenwriter Course Does the Business
This course gives you the skills, the business smarts, and the access to ghost the readers and get in the room with the bosses.
Benefits for Screenwriters
Our Approach Works. We've Got Receipts.
Obviously we can't promise you'll be the next Christopher Nolan. But we guarantee your odds are way better with us. Our grads who succeed work their arses off, usually submitting their fifth draft because they know this opportunity is pure gold.