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Don’t Know Jerry Weintraub

Don’t Know Jerry Weintraub

If you don’t know Jerry Weintraub, you should.

His autobiography When I Stop Talking You’ll Know I’m Dead (Amazon) with Rich Cohen is superb.

(Rich Cohen is also superb.)

Funny how people you read, know people you read.

Diana and I ended up writing not only several drafts of a script about Pretty Boy, but a novel about him as well. Jerry Weintraub didn’t like our script, on the (to us) odd grounds that he seemed too much of a hick. Since Pretty Boy grew up in eastern Oklahoma, in a town of less than one thousand residents, it’s hard to know how he could have escaped being a hick; so exit Jerry Weintraub, or maybe it should be enter Larry and Diana.

-Larry McMurtry, Hollywood (Amazon)

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How Much Does A Scriptwriter Get Paid?

How Much Does A Scriptwriter Get Paid?

So, how much does a scriptwriter get paid?

The answer is a lot.

And this was in the 80’s!

Can you imagine today?

You might work alone. Maybe with a writing partner. But turning out a screenplay every six months or so for $250,000 a pop…

I mean, call me.

Heck, I’ll take a stab at one for $100,000.

The goal is writing – getting paid for it is the icing.

IN THE MID to late 80s I was very active as a scriptwriter; I got job after job, mainly because I priced myself at the low end of the market. I’d ask for a simple $ 250,000 and get it easily. I would do the traditional two drafts and a polish and trot right along to the next job.

-Larry McMurtry, Hollywood (Amazon)

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