Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Spec Frustration

The esteemed Eric Pope and I are currently brainstorming a new verb to describe a common phenomenon amongst aspiring screenwriters (which, to my knowledge, doesn’t have its own slang term yet):

_______ : -verb (used without object)
To experience the inevitable but crushing sadness caused by discovery that your brilliant, original spec script is undeniably similar to a Hollywood project that just moved into production.

Here are some of the verbs we’ve bandied about:

• Brainjacked
• Dehymen’d
• Hollycocked
• Hollyblocked

Surely you have more ideas….

(For Pope, he was ______ by I Sell the Dead.
I was ______ upon learning of Adventureland‘s existence.)