Thanks...
Poke said:
Good luck and Godspeed on the rewrite.
Poke
I appreciate that more than you know...
So now, over the weekend, it seems that 90% of the people involved want to keep the little horror/thriller concept... LOL.
These people kill me... It is true what they say... NOBODY KNOWS NUTHIN'!
I had a feeling... From a previous conference call, that this was in fact the case so what I am now doing is fleshing out the characters a little more and expanding on the killer's backstory. Over the weekend, I took a drive through New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona to do a little research and came up with some backstory that I've never seen before so I'm writing it in...
I get home this morning and there's 12 messages on my machine (I DESPISE CELL PHONES). Everyone thought I had an accident and was in the hospital. LOL.
One guy (I wish I could tell you WHO because most of you have heard of him) says to me... "I didn't give you permission to just take off and do some research..."
LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
I told him to "Fuck off." --i.e., my natural tendency when someone tries to rule my life... I told him that I wasn't sure who he's worked with in the past but that at no time did I agree to be 100% obtainable. Geez... I left on Friday night and got back Late Monday night. LOL.
Anyway, I explained that I realize he's probably used to getting everything he wants but not with me... Then I sat there and waited... Silence for about 40 seconds... I just shut up.
Then he broke the silence (something I learned in General Motors and Xerox sales schools a long time ago when the Navy sent me to both is to never be the first to break the silence) with, "Okay, what did you figure out?"
I then replied, "You'll have to read it."
He said, "When?"
I said, "How about tomorrow?"
He said, "Is it good?"
I said, "It's better than good!" It's fucking OUTSTANDING!"
He said, "Then I don't have to read it. Just write the Goddamn thing."
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
I said, "I already did."
He said, "Is it really that good?"
I said, "It's fucking great!" Wanna read it?" He said, "I don't have time right now."
I said, "I think you need to make the time." (this is a conference call mind you... and nobody else is saying a thing because they're all too scared but I figure, worse case scenario is that I obviously have something here AND I do have several other producers that are interested, so fuck these people and if I make a mistake by saying what I feel, so be it).
So he said, "Send it to me."
I said, "Check your email."
He checked it and what I had done was gone through the script with Adobe Acrobat and made script notes on certain things and lead him right to the backstory rewrite...
He said, "What are all these yellow bubbles?"
I said, "Those are notes on things I need to polish and make better." He said, "Who wrote the notes?" I said, "I did," He said, "Great fucking notes!"
Then he said to everyone else on the phone, "How come we're not doing this?" Nobody could answer because they didn't have the file... LOL.
Then he gets to the pages with the backstory and literally FLIPS OUT. "I've never seen anything like this before!" This IS fucking GREAT! You need to move out here to Los Angeles. I could really use you here!" I replied, "I'm never moving back to Smell-A." He laughed at the phrase, "SMELL-A" which I've been using for years and asked me if he could use it on his friends...
I said, "Sure, no problem."
He went on and on about the notes I simply created in Acrobat (except for the rewrite) and asked me if I would be willing to read a few more scripts and make some notes... I was SILENT again.
After about only 15 seconds this time... He says, "I'll pay you of course."
Then I said, "Sure, no problem. Send 'em over." We then talked about what that would be worth and agreed on a price and then asked if he liked the notes, "Would I be available to do a rewrite?" I said, "Probably, but I need to rewrite my own screenplay first." He said, "Oh hell yes... We need yours first."
So now today, I'm reading a script written by another person some of you might have heard of and I'm really surprised at how unpolished and rushed it is... Weird. I'm taking my own rewrite slowly because I really want to keep the integrity of the story even though I have to enlarge it.
By the way... I'm still not represented by an agency. At one point, the producer's (the guy I talked to above) agency wanted to rep me. They bugged me for a couple of days and FedEx'd some stuff out here to me but I still haven't read it all. I think this is another pregnant pause and whomever breaks silence first, loses. LOL.
I pretty much have ALL my story "problems" worked out. Just need to rewrite the rest of it which I am positive I can do in a week but I get the sense that IF I do just this, they will want more rewriting and even though I'm getting paid to do it, I simply don't think the script needs MORE than what I intend to rewrite so I'm taking it slow...
Till next time...
filmy
