The Pitch

How an outside idea reaches a company, in its own words · checked 2026-10-29

How to pitch a movie idea to Bad Robot

No stated policy

Bad Robot publishes no policy on outside ideas. It turned outside spec scripts into Cloverfield films: The Cellar became 10 Cloverfield Lane and God Particle became The Cloverfield Paradox.

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Teatro 5, Cinecittà studios
Where pitches like these are made: Teatro 5, Cinecittà studios · JRibaX, CC BY-SA 3.0

What it has bought from outside

  1. 2012

    Spec script God Particle (became The Cloverfield Paradox) from Oren Uziel

    “The film is based on God Particle, a spec script from Oren Uziel, which had the main plot of the space-station crew but was unconnected to Cloverfield.” en.wikipedia.org

Other companies that take a movie idea

All of them, open doors first