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Given that the vast majority of houses in America are built on spec by developers, Kate Wagner told me, home design naturally trends toward “a commonly agreed-upon design ideology that is the least offensive possible.”

So he infiltrated the militia movement on spec, as a freelance vigilante.

“Glen and I wrote this on spec. We did it ourselves — we got international financing. We were about as independent as you could get. We’re in theaters right now and doing really great. Many indie films are out of theaters in two weeks anyway. We’re getting an indie release. Let’s look at it like that.”

The dispute between Hill and Amazon centers, in large part, on whether Hill wrote the original screenplay “on spec,” with plans to pitch it to movie studios once he finished the script, or if he was under contract to United Artists at the time.

I was fresh off the heartbreak of a Stan Lee biopic I wrote on spec getting traction at a studio, only to be killed the same way most projects in Hollywood are killed: without a phone call.