Get Repped Now 2025 UPDATE
Happy Labor Day, fellow scribes! Just a quick update this week as to where we’re at with Get Repped Now – and what happens next.
We’ve been working overtime all summer long to review all the Get Repped Now submissions. And I’m happy to say the end is finally in sight. We’ve got around 80 scripts left to read, so for everyone who’s been patiently waiting to get your analysis back and find out if you move into the consider circle (and thank you for indulging us,) we hope to have all the analyses back by September 10th, at which point we will lock the consider list.
If all goes well, we hope to go out with the considers to our manager panel on September 30th. This will give the remaining considers time to do a final polish and get us the revisions before launch. Right now we have ten (see below,) but this number may well increase as we review the remaining screenplays.
Now I’m sure we’ve all seen the numerous articles and videos about the sudden wave of spec sales of late. From The Dailies:
“Hollywood studios are finally opening their wallets for original scripts again, and writers who’ve been collecting “passes” and subsisting on ramen might want to sit down for this one: 8 spec deals have closed in August 2025 alone. That’s the highest monthly total since March 2017.”
All I can say is, it’s about f***ing time. The spec market has been a pale shadow of its former self in recent years, with 2023 winning the ignominious distinction of the fewest spec sales in recent history: 11 the entire year. We’re up to 19 so far in 2025; accordingly, the reps finally seem to have a little spring in their step. In part thanks to the success of Weapons and Sinners, original material is back. Hopefully, the timing will work out for not just our Get Repped Now considers, but for everyone who’s querying producers and managers or readying a script to go out (you and I.)
In short, it’s been stupid-hard to get managers to engage when they can’t even make their rent. But for the first time in ages, people are excited to read. So whether or not you’re a Get Repped Now consider, if you’ve got a piece of material that’s either there or close, NOW is our time. Dust off that laptop and get back into it. Hone and tone. Polish and demolish. Summer is over. The town is reading.
Get to it.
One other thing. No, we have not scheduled Get Repped Now 2026 yet. In all likelihood it will be around the same time as this year (spring.) Keep it right here and we will of course announce it with plenty of notice.
Sorry, two other things. I was asked the other day what was the main issue we saw with the scripts we read this year. Easy: dialogue. Economical, subtext-infused, crackling dialogue is often the difference between pro scripts and everyone else. If I had a dime for every script we read with on-the-nose or expository dialogue… Hint: If you’re sentence starts with “As you know…” that’s exposition. Get rid of it!
It’s tough, I know. We all banter and charm and use body language and subtext instinctively every day, but when time comes to put it on the page, suddenly we forget all that. In real-life, no one is ever direct. We lie, we say the opposite of what we mean, we beat around the bush, we exaggerate or understate, we talk about one thing but mean another (subtext!) or we say nothing and use body language to get our point across. Dialogue’s one of those things we all need to continually practice – because it’s deceptively difficult.
But enough listening to me kvetch. Get back to work 