Attachment

An attachment is talent formally committed to your project — an actor, director, or producer whose name now travels with the script. Attachments are the currency of packaging: a script with a bankable lead attached is a different financial object than the same script bare, because distributors and financiers can price the name.

The operative word is formally. "So-and-so read it and loved it" is not an attachment. "Their manager said they'd look at it" is not an attachment. A real attachment involves an agreement — often conditional on financing, dates, and pay — that the talent's representatives will confirm when a financier calls to check. And financiers always call to check.

This is why fantasy attachments are so corrosive in pitch materials. Writing an A-lister's name in your one-sheet without an agreement doesn't elevate the project; it tells every professional reader you don't know how confirmation works. The stronger play at the writing stage is the casting archetype — "late-40s, faded charm, prestige-TV credibility" — which lets producers imagine a real, attainable list.

Attachments come after the script is undeniable, not before. Get the pages scored and hardened here first; the package is built on top of them.