How to prevent someone from stealing your screenplay idea

If you're a screenwriter who's just getting started, this is likely the biggest concern on your mind. How do you protect yourself from getting taken advantage of by unscrupulous producers?

It’s every screenwriter’s nightmare: You send your script to a few producers, and everyone rejects it.

Then you turn on the TV one day and see a trailer for a movie. Your exact movie idea. Produced by the very person who turned you down.

Everyone knows someone who has been screwed over by Hollywood in some way.

So how do you prevent that from happening t…