BEATING THE ODDS
There was this article written back in 2019 I read. You can read it yourself below…
http://undergrids.com/2019/04/what-are-the-odds-of-selling-a-good-screenplay/
Many of you have probably seen this already. However, there are a few points worth discussing here in wonderful post-COVID 2022.
First off, their numbers are wrong. I worked at the WGA and someone fed them the wrong number of submissions or it was some old post on the WGA website. There were 50,000 submissions maybe ten or more years ago. In 2019, there were over double that at 100,000 submissions. Today we are over 120,000. So not only did the numbers go up, but every writer’s chances of being seen under that tsunami have decreased.
Next was this interesting quote from the article -
Yet how many of the 5000 scripts were written by unknown, unestablished, non-WGA writers? Only about 5000 WGA writers out of 20,000 WGA members, earn any money in a given year, and most of them are TV writers. But let’s be wildly optimistic and say that of the 5000 good scripts written, 1000 of them were written by WGA members.
This is mostly true. Especially about the part of the number of WGA members making any money at all. However, of those 5,000 scripts the numbers are much higher. It’s more likely around 3000-4000 of those are from WGA members.
Let’s be positive and say that leaves 2000 for non-guild members.
For the last several years, only two to four spec scripts were sold to studios by unknown writers, out of over one million scripts worldwide. That's a ~.00003% chance of breaking in with a studio film!
If we punch in the odds with the updated WGA numbers and say that non-guild members get about 2000 scripts sold then you are looking at a much better 0.016666666666667 odds of breaking in.
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