Cole Haddon

'Screenwriting Tales: The F@cked-Up Amount of Free Work It Takes to (Not) Sell Something in Hollywood Today'
 
Or: that time a studio told me to spec a TV pilot for it even though I had an A-list actor attached to the project
 
"The Writers Guild of America is currently on strike, in part, because it’s impossible to build or sustain a career in a system as broken as this."
 
https://open.substack.com/pub/colehaddon/p/screenwriting-tales-the-fcked-up?r=1mimd1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Screenwriting Tales: The F@cked-Up Amount of Free Work It Takes to (Not) Sell Something in Hollywood Today

Or: that time a studio told me to spec a TV pilot for it even though I had an A-list actor attached to the project

5AM StoryTalk
Jul 15, 2023 at 4:28pmWeb
Show threadmrobinsonJul 15, 2023
@colehaddon What an awful work culture this has become. Thank you for sharing your story
Show threadCole HaddonJul 15, 2023
@schnoots I hope it infuriates and inspires. Thanks for reading!
Show threadtim daltonJul 15, 2023
@colehaddon Well that was an interesting and troubling read. I’m glad you shared. And what i just read elsewhere about the studios or whoever just wanting writers to go broke so they will work for peanuts is so depressing. I wish you well and enjoy the coffee. - tim
Show threadCole HaddonJul 16, 2023
@timdalton Tim! Thank you so much for the coffee, my friend. It is much appreciated.
Show threadCat WestJul 15, 2023
@colehaddon For some reason, the greedy moguls don’t understand that if they paid their writers and paid them really well, they would have a level of creativity that would carry them for 50 years! Making ppl starve or desperate, does not generate the best outcomes, it just squeezes creativity to the bitter edges.
Show threadCole HaddonJul 16, 2023
@Catawu Yeeeeeeees, THIS.
Show threadCat WestJul 17, 2023
@colehaddon Greed is always self-defeating.