[Duke]

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It's all about power, and nine times out of ten, the write ain't got none. If you sell a script, the Producer can use it as toilet paper. It's his to do with what he wants. (Now, some writers, through success, do gather power and varrying degress of "rewrite protection," but there's hard and fast rules on such a thing. It's all negotiable.)

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So you sell the script, and therefore the rights to the script, correct?

Now, for example, say you wrote "D.A.R.Y.L.," and they ended up making "The Terminator" out of it. Can you just re-sell the same script to someone else who may want to make -that- movie? How much would you have to change, if anything at all.

It just seems like them making a completely different movie should "free" the script once more to potentially be made, but I don't know.

Could -they- re-sell the script to the original after they make the very different movie?