The 10 Hardest Film Genres to Write by Industrial Scripts

Be in no doubt about it – if you’re going to write for the screen, then you’re going to be writing genre. Thriller, sci-fi, crime, fantasy, comedy, horror and so on, everyone wants genre and these days they often want two genres, a comedy isn’t enough: it has to be a romantic comedy, a thriller isn’t enough it has to be an action-thriller, a horror isn’t enough it has to be a sci-fi/horror. Why? Well, they’re easy to describe and

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