For beginner screenwriters, you need to be mindful of the following:

1) There is little point in writing and submitting a screenplay from an already-existing franchise (eg Fantastic Four, your version of Star Wars ep 8, even Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3) as you will not have the movie rights for these. And producers and production execs in LA will invariably ask if you do have the movie rights very early in the pitch process.

2) While writing an original action flick on spec is a good idea, you need to be mindful of the scale of production budget that you can realistically marry with. If your script requires a platoon of US Marines with attendant helicopters and armoured vehicles, then you’re probably writing above your industry cred level (at least for now). Ditto if your script involves regular 10-car pile ups, heavy CGI war robots, etc.

For beginner directors, themselves, there is an additional consideration:

Your first funded feature – even if its funded with LA private dollars – would most likely have to be of the comedy, horror, drama, or contained-scope action genres. Which, clearly, is going to practically impact on your scriptwriting choices.

I am not saying Steve Kaire is “wrong” here. Only that there are additional, very practical, complications to add to his essay here.