![]() ![]() “The youngest son of a Mafia don is reluctantly pulled into the family business when he must avenge an attempt on his father’s life.” PULP FICTION Here are the same loglines from Episode 3, rewritten by other people (links to sources if you click title). I’ll even prove it to you that strict loglines or writing THE PERFECT LOGLINE doesn’t matter. Think of loglines as the key and the lock being the executive – if you guys fit together, it unlocks this script’s potential. Simply put, people make or break careers off the logline.īut here’s something most books won’t tell you: it’s really about luck and finding that person that’s interested in your story – selling YOU, the writer, which is reflected upon your work in your SCREENPLAY. So while loglines are important, it’s only as useful as much as the person listening to it hears what they want to hear out of you. Still, I love those movies, and if it can get your career started, or in Lucas’ case his billion-dollar franchise going, why not? And yes, for George Lucas, it quickly became all about Toyland. ![]() The right logline is one that sells your script to the right person, AKA which executive can I get to take a chance on me. There actually is no ‘right’ way to pitch something you just have to take the risk on yourself and pitch it. I’ve read a lot of them over the years – all on the ‘right’ way to pitch something, and I’ve come to one consensus: None of it matters. Look, there are so many sources on how to write and pitch a screenplay. Want to know more? Check this Netflix documentary. Still, once they did, you bet they changed the direction of the franchise to profit on that sweet merchandise money. In a lucrative deal with Kenner Toys, George Lucas realizes movie merchandizing generates twice the profits of the actual film, so keep your studio profits – we’ll make toys.Īlright, in Lucas’ and Star Wars’ defense they had no idea it would be this successful. Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire’s world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. To the right executive which sounds more profitable: STAR WARS (Actual) I can just as easily pitch you Star Wars as a story about space operas of good triumphing over evil, as much as I can, a story about one man’s journey to maximize his toy selling line. The critical element about loglines is selling – but mostly, it’s about selling what you see marketable about a movie, in the most succinct way as possible. The person itself is the product – we all aspire to be influencers in a way. It all comes back to lesson 1 a lot of the time in entertainment. Do you see this as a recurring theme in my lessons? Because it should be. Only that you’d written the logline in your voice. This episode is About a Commonly Used Formula.įive years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety. ![]()
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