I miss being less than responsible. The good ol’ days. There was a time when I’d watch all three Star Wars movies as well as the extra footage in one sitting. Too Busy.
“Last Vamp” went to SciFi last Thursday. I shant expect their thoughts and comments until next week at the earliest. Whitley, Michael, Frank, the producing crew has been above-and-beyond with support and we’re all keeping fingers crossed that SciFi’s reaction is just as positive. But for now there’s not much to do other than jump onto other projects that may be feeling lonely.
I did get a very uplifting email from Whitley yesterday. He has a mini-series at NBC and has been pushing my name. At first he was told no writers the executive hadn’t heard of. Well, that’s me. Then the Executive came back and said it was okay if he hadn’t heard of the writers as long as they were feature writers. Still not great since Jason X doesn’t exactly blow an executive’s mind. Then the Executive said they could have anyone they wanted as long as he could choose from a list. Whitley told me I was the first name on the list. Made me feel good. It still may be a tough sell with my horror/thriller background but I can’t deny the warm fuzzy feeling at Whitley’s willingness to go to bat for me.
Friday I finally met with David and Brad of Tiger Hill. They pitched me a game concept that blew my mind. I toyed with it this weekend. More on that down the road. I also jumped back on Magnus this weekend. I came up with some beats that got me excited. This would be a great project. It’s SciFi Action movie and it would be nice to open my genre a little. I love horror and thrillers but I hate when the retards in control assume that I can’t write anything else.
“Retard” is politically incorrect isn’t it? Well I can get away with it since I think I’m the resident retard on “Scarecrow”. At least it feels that way. It seems every article I read mentions Jason X then quickly tosses in a disclaimer. Thank the Heavens for Raimi and the Pangs and Stuart or we would have had a freaking Scarecrow in Space on our hands.
Today I sent Josh an email to see if we were still on for pitching Mass Destruction to Fox. But Josh is still caught up on the third act’s big twist. He doesn’t “buy” it. I go all battle mode at times like these. I want to argue and fight. I don’t think it’s a brilliant twist. I know it is. For this story it is perfect. I am utterly baffled at why he doesn’t buy it. I’d love to just lay it out here for all to read but we’ll take the story elsewhere and it’ll get made so there’s no reason to blow the third act twist now. I tend to lean toward burning bridges at times like these. Patrick prefers building them. I guess that’s not a bad combination…a good balance. We’re like Butch and Sundance. I’m Butch and Sundance and he’s the chick.
Well, no, that’s not true but it made me laugh real hard.
Anyway, later today one of us will send Josh an email wishing him luck but that we’re gonna take the idea elsewhere. We will most likely go to the places that liked us for Narcosis but thought an underwater movie was too challenging. It’s a pretty big list. We have a three minute trailer and a five minute pitch. It should be in, out and cash the checks.
The great thing about this new Empire is Ian McDiarmid’s replacement as the Emperor. How cool is that? He was the Imp in Jedi as well as Episodes I, II and III but way back in the original Empire it was a different actor. Don’t recall his name but I remember he had bug eyes. And it always bothered me that between Empire and Jedi there were two different actors. But Lucas and crew fixed it and I dig it.
Empire is wonderful. What a fantastic movie.
I saw Empire with my Granny back when it first came out. I never remember where I was and who I was with when I see movies. I just remember the movies. But that one I remember. And all these years later it’s still an amazing adventure. As far as second acts are concerned it’s probably in the top ten best.
And yes, anybody who know anything knows that Empire is the best but I never understood all the bashing of Jedi. I think Jedi is great. You get Leia in a gold bikini — and let’s be honest…if you are hetro and fall into the late Gen X category and you didn’t pause that old VHS while mom and dad were out of the house on several occasions then you were obviously one of the few who believed that old wives’s tale about going blind. We also get Han saved from Carbonite and I’m sorry, Harry but Lucas was right. I love you/I know was brilliant. Good work. But Killing off Han would have been bad. Because Luke’s becoming a Jedi was a given. I was always more impressed by the pirate becoming a general. Granted the movie hits the horse rapids when we meet the dwarves in furry costume but they’re cute and when we watch Vader finally conflicted by Impy’s killing Luke…wow.
I love Jedi. It’s right behind Empire in my book.
Finally, I always wanted to see James Earl Jones under the mask. Yes, I understand why that might have raised questions but when I would hear that voice I would see that face under the mask. Pulling off the mask to see some bloated white dude never did it for me. And that’s why I never felt connected to what the above scene was supposed to do. Old Anakin was always a stranger to me. But to see a young Anakin in this new edition. Oh, yes. I’m on board for that. No complaints.
Well, enough about George’s empire. It’s time for me to make my stupid mark. Today I’ll work on Psychopath or Magnus or both. But first I’ll make some naked yoga sweat then tool over to Starbucks and help myself to a Venti Iced Chai.
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