On a sunny afternoon in Los Angeles, production manager Kevin Winston's office door is closed. [Full text reading]

In the eyes of most people in this industry, as one of Warner's 865 third-tier production managers, the tricky "bald Kevin" is playing pull ball in his vulgar office to pass the time of extreme boredom.

But in fact?

Kevin Winston was working intently, his bald head in one hand and the mouse in the other, his bright, intelligent eyes staring intently at the computer screen, reviewing a script......

While watching, he frowned and commented on the page about the loopholes in the script, the punctuation is wrong, the characters are pale to white, and the plot setting is old-fashioned......

Damn it...... It's another garbage ......

In the end, Kevin gave a D-grade evaluation at the end of this script......

And this is the 32nd script he reviewed today, among the 32 scripts, only one script has reached the C-level standard, and the others are D, E-level unpopular works......

Kevin sighed in his heart as he took a sip of coffee, he had good luck today...... There is also a C-level script.

At this time, if someone comes in, they will see that there are three bookshelves behind Kevin's body, and they are almost full.

The bookshelves are full of scripts with clear numbers to be reviewed, and the last number is 1433...... A full 1433 scripts!

And these scripts are all scripts with agents.

For people outside of Hollywood, it's incredible......

Those who write a script at home or in the office and dream of being made into a Hollywood blockbuster and become rich overnight can never imagine what kind of terrifying competition they face......

As a third-level production manager, Kevin Winston doesn't have the right to open new projects in a film empire like Time Warner.

All he can do is be a "script hunter" and provide the 12 top 12 front-line production managers with script proposals for next year.

There are thousands of so-called "script hunters" throughout Hollywood, and their performance is tied to whether the scripts they select are adapted into works by their superiors.

Although inconspicuous, Kevin's "script hunter" is a middle-level force in the entire Hollywood industry, and it is also an indispensable link.

For the "script hunters" of various large companies, they are usually divided into five grades of A-E according to the value of the script.

The two lowest levels, D and E, are considered to be unusable waste paper, and only the three levels of A, B, and C are the targets of the "Script Hunters".

Among them, the value of C-grade scripts is estimated to be between $5,000 and $10,000, which usually refers to scripts with novel stories but many trial and error scripts.

There is only a very small chance that these C-level scripts will be valued by top producers, who will spend money to readapt them into a low-budget film and television work.

If the script is worth between $10,000 and $100,000, it will be classified as a B-level script.

In a script at this level, the characters, dialogues, and stories must be extremely good, the story structure and logic must be mature, and there must be a large number of details ~~

B-level scripts are the level of most Hollywood movies, and if they are made into movies, Hollywood companies can usually give a production specification of about $20 million.

Further up, there are A-grade scripts worth more than $100,000.

At this level, it is almost impossible to dig up scripts in any public channel, and A-list scripts are usually the work of a top director and screenwriter agreement.

From the first draft to the formation, the A-level script is the crystallization of the industry's top wisdom, and there are usually more than 3 top screenwriters and directors to work together to complete it.

After completing the first draft, the screenwriting team will overturn their original ideas countless times in every minute of the story, every scene, every dialogue of the characters, and every scene......

Until all the screenwriters and directors thought that they could not find a better dialogue and script......

Some even have storyboards for filming, lighting diagrams, and sequel stories.

This whole process alone usually takes no less than three years before it is finally eligible to be evaluated as an A-level script.

In the film world, blockbusters with an investment of more than $50 million are equipped with A-level scripts.

However, this kind of script, obviously, is beyond the scope of the goal of a "script hunter" at Kevin's level......

For Kevin, his highest goal is a B-level script, so every time he opens a new review script, it feels like digging for a new treasure, hoping to get some wonderful story in it~~

But usually, what he gets is the same **** plot......

When he was unlucky, he couldn't even find a C-grade script for a whole month, let alone a B-grade script that was the result of those rare inspirations.

In Kevin's entire two-year career as a "script hunter", he's only found one B-grade script so far......

After reviewing the 52nd terrible submitted script, Kevin rubbed his eyes a little tiredly, entered the website of the West Bund Screenwriters Association, clicked directly into the screenwriter list, and directly found it at the bottom of the list.

It's one of the jobs he looks forward to the most every day, to see if there are any fish that slip through the net outside the industry.

Although there is little hope of discovering a good script in this way, if you find a C-level script released by a stupid rookie screenwriter, as long as you can buy the copyright at a low price, then Kevin can earn the difference, which is also what many "script hunters" are most willing to do.

Kevin read a few scripts at random, and as usual, these scripts with a marked value of between $30 and $50 were terrible, and many didn't even know how many characters and how many scenes a movie needed......

Kevin couldn't help but muttered while watching: "The approval of VIP members of this idiot screenwriters association is really getting lower and lower......"

But at this time, Kevin suddenly saw a strange phenomenon, at the end of the list, there was a group of scripts with the same person "NB......

Usually, the VIPs on the Screenwriters Guild's website are all real-name members of the Screenwriters Guild in the United States, and they have just made the list with at most one or two scripts......

How did this guy with a strange name upload so many at once?

Could it be that foreign members accumulate points to VIP level simply by uploading the number of words? Is there still such a stupid person in this day and age?