The original script coverage service. For humans.
Improve your screenplay before you send it out
Since 1999, our script coverage service has helped tighten up over 55,000 screenplays for screenwriters, studios, contests, and producers.
When you order script coverage service from Screenplay Readers
You get an experienced professional human screenplay analyst who reads your script
Our script readers are story analysts, screenwriters, authors, and script development experts with at least 10 years experience who actually care about helping you make your screenplay be the best it can be.
You get feedback and notes on your script
3-4 pages of detailed, honest analysis on what’s working about your screenplay, and what’s not, and we recommend specific things to tweak right now that will make it more appealing to agents, producers, name talent, and all the gatekeepers and script readers in between.
You get to ask your story analysts follow-up questions about that feedback
Feel free to ask your script readers questions about their notes after you receive your script coverage.
You get a logline for your screenplay
Your screenplay summed up in one or two sentences. Great to have when pitching your script.
You get a synopsis of your screenplay
Your screenplay boiled down to about a page or so, allowing you to see the major beats of your story from a story analyst’s point of view.
Your screenplay gets scored in 22 categories
A score assigned to 22 key screenwriting categories, such as character, dialogue, plot, theme, and more. Good for tracking your progress across screenplay drafts.
Your screenplay gets a PASS, CONSIDER, or RECOMMEND
This gives you an idea of how a screenplay reader at a studio or agency might react. Like the rest of your screenplay coverage, this is only seen by you.
Your screenplay gets a Bechdel Test Score & a Diversity Score
The Bechdel Score is a rough measure of your screenplay’s female representation. The Diversity Score is how well your screenplay incorporates characters from a variety of life experiences.
Here is a sample of our script coverage
Who uses Screenplay Readers script coverage service?
Major producers and agents who need to know if the screenplays sent to them are worth developing or packaging
Screenwriters and producers ready to send their screenplays to agents, name talent, or producers, or who need quick, constructive feedback before pitching at major studios and streamers
Writers groups and screenwriting festivals who trust our script readers to judge their submissions and provide great notes and feedback
The Benefits of Getting Script Coverage from Screenplay Readers
✅ Lets you see how a “gatekeeper” would react to your script
You typically get one chance with agents and producers. Script coverage from Screenplay Readers acts as a valuable “dry run” to gauge how film industry professionals may react to your screenplay.
✅ Lets you catch any problems
Our story analysts will spot story holes, character inconsistencies, presentation problems, and much, much more, so you can fix things up before you send the script to agents, producers, fellowships, and festivals.
✅ Gives you fresh ideas and suggestions
Our story analysts don’t just point out flaws, they offer creative and constructive suggestions on how to repair those flaws. Every script reader on the Screenplay Readers roster has at least 10 years of comprehensive script development experience, a strong critical voice, and the ability to come up with creative solutions to story problems.
✅ Gets you out of your head
Being too close to your own script often prevents creative screenwriters from being objective and critical of their own work. See your story through the fresh eyes of someone who has read thousands of screenplays and can help make it stronger and more sellable.
✅ Makes you a better screenwriter
Feedback on your work can often be hard for a writer to hear, but it’s by far the fastest and most powerful tool you can use to grow your screenwriting skills and write sellable, shootable movies and series.
Why choose Screenplay Readers script coverage service?
Our script coverage service gives you specific easy-to-follow tweaks that will improve your script. Other services provide vague screenwriting advice and self-help hooey.
We actually show you who’s reading your screenplay (our names, bios, and pics here). Other script coverage services don’t.
We keep it simple, as we have for nearly three decades. We give you feedback on your script. That’s it. Other services sell you promises of “Hollywood access” and offer to “map your career journey” and other poppycock.
We pay our script readers the highest rates in the industry because their skills and experience far exceed those of the interns and newbies working for other services. (No offense, interns and newbies.)
We don’t feed your screenplay into an A.I. like many script coverage services do now. It’s humans first and humans only here at Screenplay Readers. (And death to our robot overlords!)
We keep your screenplay, your ideas, and your order data 100% private and secure. (Can I get a 256-bit AES-encrypted amen?)
