I am completely bummed out...
Yesterday a buddy of mine, a law student, came up to me and asked me if I had heard anything about a movie called Blood and Chocolate... I hadn't, but he snickered and told me I should check it out and let him know if I needed his help. I didn't get it at the time, but after watching the Trailer for the flick, I got it almost immediately. Now let me just say this... Great minds do think alike, and this type of thing happens all the time. So by that standard, I really have nothing to be upset about. BUT I spent 2 years writing a script called Blood and Roses. It was the first screenplay I ever wrote, and I am uber proud of it! The first draft was written over 5 years ago, and registered with the WGC and the WGA. I shopped it around for a little while, but writing is my hobbie so I never really got into it. When I checked out the Trailer for Blood and Chocolate on the apple.com website my heart sunk. It could very well be a preview for my script. With a few changes... the superficial kind people make when they are trying to pass shit off as their own but it isn't. i.e. the main character in Blood and Chocolate's name is Vivian... Mine... Victoria... She's a werewolf, mine a Vampire. But they meet in a church, they fall in love while exploring the city together. She has to struggle with what she is and the love she has for the guy. And there's even a scene that bares a striking resemblance to my favourite scene in my script where they end up at a look out above the city and share a tender moment together. Part of me is saying "Yay! That's really cool", but another part of me is aching inside... There's nothing I can do... Absolutely nothing, unless I can prove that the producers saw my script and copied it. Even my script analyst, who reads hundreds of scripts a month and has worked for Warner Bros. said to me "it's funny. when i saw the trailer, i leaned over to my husband and i said... gosh that looks familiar. i wonder if i've read it.". She's also the one that broke the news to me that there's really nothing I can do.
I suppose in a sense I should be excited that an idea I had (or shared with someone else) made it to the screen... But it's frustrating and maddening that its not my story on the screen or my name in the credits...
- Z
Yesterday a buddy of mine, a law student, came up to me and asked me if I had heard anything about a movie called Blood and Chocolate... I hadn't, but he snickered and told me I should check it out and let him know if I needed his help. I didn't get it at the time, but after watching the Trailer for the flick, I got it almost immediately. Now let me just say this... Great minds do think alike, and this type of thing happens all the time. So by that standard, I really have nothing to be upset about. BUT I spent 2 years writing a script called Blood and Roses. It was the first screenplay I ever wrote, and I am uber proud of it! The first draft was written over 5 years ago, and registered with the WGC and the WGA. I shopped it around for a little while, but writing is my hobbie so I never really got into it. When I checked out the Trailer for Blood and Chocolate on the apple.com website my heart sunk. It could very well be a preview for my script. With a few changes... the superficial kind people make when they are trying to pass shit off as their own but it isn't. i.e. the main character in Blood and Chocolate's name is Vivian... Mine... Victoria... She's a werewolf, mine a Vampire. But they meet in a church, they fall in love while exploring the city together. She has to struggle with what she is and the love she has for the guy. And there's even a scene that bares a striking resemblance to my favourite scene in my script where they end up at a look out above the city and share a tender moment together. Part of me is saying "Yay! That's really cool", but another part of me is aching inside... There's nothing I can do... Absolutely nothing, unless I can prove that the producers saw my script and copied it. Even my script analyst, who reads hundreds of scripts a month and has worked for Warner Bros. said to me "it's funny. when i saw the trailer, i leaned over to my husband and i said... gosh that looks familiar. i wonder if i've read it.". She's also the one that broke the news to me that there's really nothing I can do.
I suppose in a sense I should be excited that an idea I had (or shared with someone else) made it to the screen... But it's frustrating and maddening that its not my story on the screen or my name in the credits...
- Z
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still kinda sucks though, lol. great minds think alike.
P.S thank you for the kind wishes