Share the Rewriting Wealth

Re: “Multiple Screenwriter Syndrome: Any Cure?” (May 27). There are other reasons why rewriters are used to finish off a screenplay. One is because sometimes the original writer is too busy. Also, sometimes the writer cannot bear to chop up his purported “pearls of wisdom.” So a rewriter is needed.

But Hollywood, in all its mega-business wisdom, seems only to depend on “A-list writers” to give it what it wants. This old boys’ network is proving more and more to be a mega waste of money. You see, A-list writers are not flop-proof.

There are very good writers itching to rewrite to prove themselves, and very good writers with knockout scripts ready to be made that can do the rewrites themselves at tremendous savings to the studios. Hollywood really needs to expand its horizons when it comes to talent, use a talent pool of new and tried writers to write and rewrite the screenplays . . . after the original writer has said yea or nay.

THOMAS YOUNG and MAUREEN TOBIN

The Moto Group

Culver City