TNT Roughcut.com's Screenplay Challenge Continues

Posted on October 29, 1998

Beginning November 20, 1998, TNT's Roughcut.com hosts The Screenplay Challenge, a 10-week online round-robin screenwriting project that allows contributors to continue an original screenplay started by Hollywood screenwriter Pen Densham (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Moll Flanders, Backdraft).

The Screenplay Challenge is the second in a series of Screenplay Challenges. The first contest, launched on July 17, 1998 received more than 1000 submissions from Web users. Roughcut.com will continue to challenge Web users, exploring a different film genre with a top-notch professional screenwriter each quarter.

For the upcoming Screenplay Challenge, aspiring screenwriters will have the opportunity to collaborate with Pen Densham, producer and director of TNT's upcoming Original film Houdini (premiering December 6, at 8 p.m. ET/PT). On November 20, Densham will post the first chapter of an original screenplay exclusive to the Roughcut.com site. These first pages will introduce the characters and set the direction for the film.

Each week, a panel of judges will select the best submission and post that chapter on the site. In addition to the opportunity to collaborate with Densham and publish online, each winner will be awarded $100.00 and the chance to win the Grand Prize -- a new laptop computer from which to write his or her next screenplay. Densham will write the final chapter. The final screenplay will total between 100 and 120 pages -- the standard length for a feature film -- and will be available online for fans to read.

TNT Roughcut.com has posted the complete rules and regulations for the Screenplay Challenge and a submission form at http://www.roughcut.com.