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Old 02-22-2007, 03:00 PM
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I have two. One's for a Gothic noir set in a quarantine 1939 American midatlantic where vampires are a wave of immigration and necromancers have replaced the lower class with zombies. It deals with the formation of America and immigration debates as well as contemporary humanity. The other pilot is for a series animated show about giant monsters awakening in the modern world because the earth has been given a cleansing prerogative by an insane psychic who can speak to the gaea. It's mostly centered on mankind's will to survive. Imagine Joss Whedon meets Jack Arnold with a serious message.
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Old 02-22-2007, 03:06 PM
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sounds ambitious as hell. period tales are a tough sell, but I love 'em and have a couple under my belt... too bad I can't get anyone to read them.

Good luck, man
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Old 02-22-2007, 03:16 PM
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The noir story isn't so much period as alt-history. It's a German Expressionist New York, with kind of a pulpy vibe. I decided the latter should be animated because tv stations probably don't want to make a big budget 44 minute dramatic monster film each week.
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Old 02-23-2007, 11:01 AM
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yep

they like to tag along when we meet someone cool. I've said it before, but Hollywood is just like a junior high cafeteria, everyone wants to sit at the cool kids' table...and just who's cool changes from week to week.
That's funny. Have you told them you have a foreign investor interested in the script they called unsellable yet?

Enjoy your week at the cool kids table! Hopefully you can stretch your week there into a semester or two!


And by the way, no matter how HUGE you get, I'm still gonna hold you to that beer @ the Beanery when I get out there. :D
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Old 02-23-2007, 12:04 PM
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That's funny. Have you told them you have a foreign investor interested in the script they called unsellable yet?

Enjoy your week at the cool kids table! Hopefully you can stretch your week there into a semester or two!


And by the way, no matter how HUGE you get, I'm still gonna hold you to that beer @ the Beanery when I get out there. :D
We'll certainly ahve that beer. and the other script...I'm not saying a word to the reps until we have a deal in hand - but things are moving in that direction very quickly.
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Old 02-23-2007, 12:08 PM
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Imagining the looks on their faces when you tell them just made me laugh out loud & that's ironic since I don't even know what they look like.
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I have two. One's for a Gothic noir set in a quarantine 1939 American midatlantic where vampires are a wave of immigration and necromancers have replaced the lower class with zombies. It deals with the formation of America and immigration debates as well as contemporary humanity. The other pilot is for a series animated show about giant monsters awakening in the modern world because the earth has been given a cleansing prerogative by an insane psychic who can speak to the gaea. It's mostly centered on mankind's will to survive. Imagine Joss Whedon meets Jack Arnold with a serious message.
Both those stories sound really cool and interesting, especially the first one. I would love to read those when they are finished.
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Old 03-04-2007, 12:25 PM
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Old 03-05-2007, 09:47 AM
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So we met with XXXXXXXXX last week. Really cool. First off his office is a house. Not his house, mind you, but a small craftsman house in a nice neighborhood in Hollywood that is a dedicated office. Pretty cool.

We enter the living room/lobby and the walls are covered with movie one-sheets from XXXXXX & XXXXXx & XXXXXXXXX there are maquettes and figurines of XXXXXX, XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXX and a few Chinese take-out boxes with "XXXXXXXXX" printed on them. I'm already getting geeky.

One of the three assistants comes in and offers us something to drink. I take a coffee - those of you interested in doing the Hollywood thing, always take the drink that's offered, seriously - and we wait while a yappy little white dog tugs at my pants lag.

After a minute of two we are escorted into a back bedroom that has been converted into Mr XXXXXXX's office. Bookshelves line the walls. More toys, more movie posters...including Howard Hawkes' The Thing. There's a spread on the table, an actual spread - grapes, brie and crackers, coffee, sugar, cream - and behind the desk is THE MAN.

He smiles we shakes hands. He dives right in, asking us our ages. My partner Jim replies "medium", so John flips him the bird. He does this a lot, three times actually throughout the course of the hour-long meeting. He is awesome. Super cool and not at all pretentious. We talk about the script for twenty minutes in which he tells us that "we did it wrong" that we were imitating. He believes there is something good, maybe even something great here, but we're going to have to dig and work to get it to the right place. He wants us to come back and go over the script page-by-page and work together as long as it takes to turn this into the movie he wants to make. He also tells us he doesn't work in the mornings and he only works here in his office.

I'm in heaven.

Then it gets fun. We start talking about our favorite films. A half hour passes with us discussing the merits and weaknesses of John Ford films. This is Hollywood cool at its best.

We go back to his office again tomorrow for the first full day of work. I can't wait!
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Old 03-05-2007, 01:27 PM
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That's amazing! Particularly the John Ford debate and that there WAS a John Ford debate. It's also good that he's pushing for the script to innovate. Some people would go the other direction and that would suck.
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