First off we pitched Jeremy Steckler at Di Bonaventura Pictures. Is there anyone in this town Patrick doesn’t know? He’s been at it longer than me and he’s reached certain success as an editor so it makes sense that he’d know people but everyone seems to know him. Just feel very third wheel. Not only that, Stuart Beatty’s name keeps coming up. Everyone loves Stuart. And the name comes up when we mention “Scarecrow”. It’s always, “Oh, yeah. Stuart rewrote that. Stuart’s great. We love Stuart.”
Meanwhile I’m clearly the bozo who did such a poor job that Stuart had to come in and save me.
Look, Stuart did a great job on the rewrite. If you gotta be rewritten it is certainly a pleasure to be rewritten by someone who knows how to write. But the fact is, the notes were stupid. Stuart did great but the notes were so bad that the finished product had Revolution putting the thing into turnaround. Guess I’m just grumpy.
The meeting went good. Real good. Jeremy seemed very excited about the story. But that seems to be the one consistant. Everyone is blown away with how well we pitch it and how good the story is but again the issue of budget and water came up. Just have to wait and see.
Next I had a general meeting with Albert Surger of Red Thread productions. Eh, nothing will come of it.
Finally I had a general meeting at Lightstorm to meet with Greg Frankovich. Even though this was a general meeting I was sort of pumped because Cameron is certainly a guy who would not be scared of an underwater movie. He invented the modern underwater movie. People may wrongly bash “The Abyss” but that movie had one of the greatest scenes in movie history. Watching your wife drown in freezing water so you can swim her two hundred yards and then try to bring her back? Amazing.
Anyway I gave Greg a teaser of Narcosis and he was hooked. Nicole’s setting a meeting for us to go back and pitch him after Christmas.
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