How One Writer Hopes to Make Her Script the 'Easiest Sell' With a Y2K Nostalgia-Filled Table Read

All her career, screenwriter Victoria Male has heard that having a great script was the most important thing she could do to give her work the best shot at getting made. That advice shifted in the midst of the pandemic and the strikes, with studios no longer willing to take bets on just any script. "There's . . . a lot of risk aversion, a lot of fear," Male told TheWrap, pointing to words of a friend who works as a senior development executive at a U.K. production. "Now people aren't trying to find the script that they can fight for and that will make their career - they're just . . .