This is excellent news for all of us. Huge spec sales, especially from unknown writers, are good omens for the market.
I've read Evidence. It's a fast-paced, twisty-turney script with great surprises and scares, and it can be shot for a low budget. The characters feel real, which is one thing that sets this apart from other horror scripts of its ilk. It was a finalist in the Tracking B contest, the event that catapulted the script through town through the efforts of great reps. This all went well because a great script got into the right hands and the writer rocked in the room.
Yet if you read the comments on the Deadline Hollywood Daily post, you'd think this was the greatest tragedy ever to hit town. So much nastiness. It's pretty obvious why - jealousy. Even if the script wasn't for you, there's no need to be an ass to someone you've never met because they've seen success.
We see it all the time - people being assholes because they wish their script was getting them the same places as someone else.
Let's all try to be positive about each others' success, shall we? Spend your hatred on your characters. Ruin their lives. Make them emote. Write a script so great that some day someone will be talking all this shit about you.
