Just When You Thought It Was Safe...

to go back into the theaters, movies like this come out.

http://queryletters.blogspot.com/

Actually, these aren't Hollywood originals (wow, there's an oxymoron!), these are a gackle of query letters sent to a Hollywood agent.

What's funny about this is the fact that I hate query letters and stupid ideas, and this site basically is both. As a screenwriter you spend months and months pounding out a script full of dialogue, because if it's not, it's a book, ya know? After that, you have to transform that script into about 5 lines of prose (a query letter) to send off to an agent in hopes that they'll read your script. Of course, 5 lines is a horrible representation of a 110 page script, but oh well, that's the system. I mean, I'm sure that this query letter in no way comes near to summing up the brilliance of this script:

"A scriptwriter tries to kill himself after his latest script is rejected, resulting in a drug induced coma, and his confinement in a mental asylum. He awakens 3 yrs later to discover, much to his astonishment, that he has continued to write. He meets a beautiful woman sent to investigate his past, and also to procure the production rights to his works, from the asylum's Director. Their romantic attraction and his consciousness becomes a threat to the doctor, and with his worsening hallucinations he finds himself the prime suspect in a murder investigation."