One thing newbie writers do is to think that their dialogue is so clever (a-la Clerks) that it will carry a movie. It won’t.
Movies are about “moving pictures” not “moving pictures of two people talking.” If I want to see two people talking, I can go down to the local Jack in the Box, right?
Right.
Put [...]
Since I’m doing this on the fly, I wanted to get in and out. Here we go with PROJECT UPDATES!
1) 2 0 3 – nobodies really read it! So sad because it’s pretty damn good. Soon, soon.
2) American Monster – it’s a tough one because of it’s graphic nature and the fact that it’s “based [...]
A rather disappointing week in terms of production. I did spend a chunk of time looking at my act 2 inciting incidents and got a good handle on them. But birthdays, a dog sent to the emergency room, and stress have teamed to block progress. No big whoop. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger [...]
For all of you folks asking “what’s up with [INSERT TITLE HERE].”
Here we go. A blow by blow run-down…
On Every. Single. Script.
Notalotta this week, gang. Here’s the quick version and we’ll regroup next week:
1) Big Blue Meanie – working with a few interested parties on getting it optioned. Also working with Don Jackson on polishing.
2) Blind Eye – made a whole buncha changes. It’s much better now. But Larry had an excellent idea — add in a [...]
Two Guys rewrite done, polished, resubmitted, and accepted.
Venture. No news is good news. As of earlier this week, it hadn’t been read by the money people.
Blue Blood has 3.8M of 5M financing in place. Got an extra 1.2M and wanna make a movie? Boy have I got a deal for you! What’s 1.2M between friends?
‘Sposed to [...]
Really not a whole lot to say. So instead of one of a ‘lesson-learned’ type of blog entry, it’s time for the /echo on/ PROJECT UPDATES /echo off/.
For those playing at home, Blue Blood, Two Guys, and Venture are optioned at this point. I’ve been approached to do some rewrite work that’s derailed my work on new spec ideas and I’m somewhat under the gun to deliver in a short amount of time. Not that I’m complaining, as this is exactly what [...]
Look! It’s “Below the Ice”! Click on the link on the left side of the site if you want to read the first 10 pages.
In the most desolate locale on Earth, ten crewmembers of the icebreaker Ava Rita battle for survival against a beast brought to the surface when the ocean temperature rises one degree.
This [...]
We haven’t done this in a while, so here we go…
Things seem to be picking up, in a general sense. I’m off to LA in the near future to meet with several groups of people on different projects.