![]() Truth be told, most movies were already less than two hours long at that point. One page in script format roughly equaling one minute of screen time, this would result in the average two-hour feature film. Once upon a time, as recently as the 1990s or as the youths refer to it, “the late 20th century,” the standard script length was still being taught as 120 pages. The problem is that those numbers keep changing. Just like with Goldi’s impossibly high standards, when it comes to screenplays, there’s definitely such a thing as too short and too long. Red flags everywhere with this one, people: Do. This chair’s too hard, another one’s too soft. Nothing was ever good enough for this high-maintenance home invader: the porridge was too hot or too cold. This sort of thing is often called a “Goldilocks Rule.” That said, there are broad strokes to follow about script length. Have a great script? Enter it into the WeScreenplay Feature Screenwriting Competition! The Goldilocks Rule Unfortunately, it just doesn’t work that way. It’s somehow easier if the right answer is, “Exactly 105 pages! Not 105 and a half! Not 104! 105 or we shred it!” ![]() “It depends” is not what you were hoping to hear. ![]() The answer to this question is, to my mind at least, one of the very worst answers any question can possibly receive:īy Zeus’ beard, what a horrible answer to any question that is! It’s like when you tell someone you love them and they respond, “Thanks.” (Not that that has ever happened to me, of course! Note to self: pitch a blog post about “unreliable narrators.”) It’s one of the most often-asked questions by rising screenwriters and my screenwriting students: “How long should my feature script be?”
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