Here’s How Movie Studios Rejected Scripts in the Early 1900s.

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Those of you unhappy with the quality of movie ideas and output of today will likely also get a kick out of excuses like “weak plot,” “improbable,” “too conventional” and “no adaptations desired.” Of course, the notice does make the studio seem interested in action, but nothing too unpleasant, and they weren’t down for period pieces and foreign-set works.

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“Your idea has been done before.”

Pretty sure no one’s received THAT rejection from Hollywood in ages. Of course, that’s okay, because ideas are worthless without execution and execution is where Hollywood (and writers and publishers, for that matter) usually drop the ball.