How Long Should A Movie Script Be?

An ideal feature script should be about 110 pages. Figure about 40-50 scenes. A fast past script like action genre will be closer to 50 or so. These do not include establishing shots and such as scenes. Try to keep a scene under 3 pages. A few can go over, but not many.

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This sounds a bit like the question "How long is a piece of string?" but in fact there are guidelines, although of course these vary enormously as do films themselves. Very roughly, a page (we will assume A4) of film script should equate to a minute's worth of dialogue, action or whatever is taking place in the film at that point.

Therefore, a typical two-hour film will need about 120 pages of script. Of course this is only an approximation, eg sometimes the action in the film will take a lot longer to describe than it does to perform or vice versa..

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120 pages, every page is a minute.

A script should be no less than 75 pages. This coming from a man in the business.