SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 449 – Writing A Lifetime Movie With Richard Pierce
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with returning guest, writer Richard Pierce. They talk about the art of writing and pitching a made for TV Movie for networks like Lifetime.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with writer Richard Pierce. This is a returning guest, SYS 378 was his prior interview.
He talks about the art of writing and pitching a made for TV Movie for networks like Lifetime. Richard Pierce talks about the writing and development process for Do You Trust Your Boyfriend (AKA Killer Profile - 2021).
Topics also include how writing a made for TV movie (MOW or Movie Of the Week) is structured very differently than other screenplays.
You can listen to the audio portion of the podcast by clicking here or through iTunes by clicking here.
You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Richard Pierce on IMDb
- Richard Pierce on Twitter
- Do You Trust Your Boyfriend Trailer
- Do You Trust Your Boyfriend on IMDb
- Listen to SYS 378 with Richard Pierce here.
- SYS Select - Includes the SYS Select Screenplay Database, our monthly newsletter to producers, and paid screenwriting leads.
- Our free guide, "How to Sell Your Screenplay in 5 Weeks!"
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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.
