#Screenwriters

So you're a big sci-fi fan? Some of biggest entertainment franchises of all time are sci-fi. And in 2025, the screenplay spec market is back! The town is finally reading and buying scripts again. Surely a great science fiction spec script can get in on the action, right?

Well... about that...

Here's the thing. While (almost) everyone loves a great sci-fi movie or TV show, very few people in the industry actually like reading sci-fi spec scripts. WHY? Because, well, many of them are a painful slog -- overloaded with big-brained or esoteric ideas, often confusing with thin characterizations, too many characters and storylines. And more often than not, they'd be ridiculously expensive to make.

The sky's not the limit when movie budgets anymore - especially not spec scripts from unknown writers.

But here's the thing: contained sci-fi is another story entirely. Tell a great human story, and do it with a smallish cast, a handful of locations, and keep the VFX to a minimum? You may have something.

Problem is, many sci-fi writers are the former rather than the latter.

So what to do? How to write your epic sci-fi screenplay and still have the best chance of a feature spec sale or setting up your TV pilot?

Beam on up with Coverage Ink's Jim Cirile and Tanya Klein as we explore what to do, and what to avoid, and proceed with phasers on stun and eyes wide open as you create a scifi feature spec script or TV series pilot that the town will actually want to read.

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