ABSTRACT
As a line producer, the filmmaker must be creative when reading the script and making decisions with the writer and producer about rewrites. The writer has invested a great deal of time, energy, and passion in the script and may be not be happy, willing, or agreeable when the filmmaker ask for certain changes. It is the line producer's job to read through the script with an eye toward the budget. The producer let the writers try to find answers that changed the story as little as possible, while enabling the filmmakers to shoot the script on what had become a very low budget. It should be used to obtain the rights to a previously written work with the ultimate goal of turning it into their movie. Registering their script with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) serves as a record of the script's completion date and protects original work and ideas.
