You’ve been working on your screenplay for months, about a mother who decides to escape the oppressive idea of housewifery and become an astronaut. Your agent tells you it has potential, that it “speaks to a larger meaning” Now it’s time to propose it around, you go to every production office you know trying to pawn it off, your agent sends it around and finally you hear back.
HBO wants to adapt it as an episodic where you will get to remain as a producer with some control over the piece - but is demanding rewrites to the script to be done by a male writer which will completely erase the cultural meaning of the piece. Then NEON reaches out, you get to remain the sole writer but have no say whatsoever in the rest of the project. Your agent is breathing down your throat waiting for you to accept. Which do you choose?