Script length

Well feature length wise you are looking at a minimum of 90 pages, very rarely will you find a feature shorter than that.
As for format, i take it you're using screenwriting software, so that shouldnt be a problem.
You say it looks like its gonna be aroun 60 pages, my advice would be too finish it first, regardless of page count, then see where you are. Leave it for a couple of days a week if you can then go abck and re-read it, this should give you a clearer perspective and enable you to see where you can add or develop it further.

most first-time screenwriters looking to sell their script need it to be between 90 and 110 pages.

finish it and see where you are. it is always easier to cut out excess stuff than to have to come up with stuff to add without bogging down the story.

It's tough, isn't it?

Everyone tells you that a script NEEDS to be this long...or can't be longer than blah blah...

Then you pick up scripts...and they're pamphlets.

Or they're the size of the Old Fucking Testament.

And where do you fit in? As a potential first-time screenwriter, why is it you can't get away with William Goldman's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid script? Why can't you write something epic?

Robert Rodriguez said he was afraid El Mariachi wouldn't be a long enough film when he found that his finished script was 70 pages.

John Carpenter and Kurt Russell's first draft of Escape From L.A. was 300 PAGES(?!)...

I handed a script to a guy one time that was TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY PAGES LONG - I had come to the 230 mark from an initial 302 pages. I felt like that was the lightest it was gonna' get. I knew it was a big mistake to present something so massive, but as a wannabe filmmaker workin' retail - what did I have to lose?

A few months later, the Director of Development for this production company called me. He said his boss walked into the office stating that he had returned with a "Leaden tome".

No one touched it. It sat around the office for months.

Eventually, people started reading it because they "wanted to know just what the hell was in a 230 pages script anyway"...

It got passed around, and a few days later, I got a call telling me that although I had a strong grasp of character and a great ear for dialogue - the script was way overlong, and needed to lose somewhere in the area of 100 pages.

So I somehow dropped another 90 and sent it back. From 302 to 230 to 140. Insane. I can't remember the things I cut, so that must be a good thing, right?

I now have an open door for submissions. They want to look at whatever I want to show them.

The script I just finished is 101 pages. I might be off to a much better start lengthwise - but it just goes to show that you never can tell how people will react to the size of your screenplay.

Just let me butt in and say as a general rule of thumb one page of a script is equals about one minute of screen time.

Unless you're Michael Bay, in which case one page of script equals twelve seconds of dialogue, followed by ten minutes of slow motion exploding.

generally speaking, i don't think script readers frown upon the economy of words.

What's the best script writing software? How do I learn how to type without looking at tje dammn keys?

Final Draft has plenty of supporters, but i prefer Movie Magic 2000 by a wide margin.

did you misspell those words on purpose?

that's what happens when I don't look at the keyboard. maybe someday voice recognition software will actually work.

I use final draft and I like it lots.

The only way to get good at typing without looking at the keys is to type. I have been writing (by way of computer) for almost 10 years now and I still have to glance at the keyboard sometimes for words I don't use much.