A big congratulations goes out to the adorable Dean Lorey. He’d been sitting on a fantastic idea for a couple of years while he crawled through the Film and Television trenches of Hollywood. After being treated like garbage on his last feature project Dean retreated to the safety of his office, took a couple of months and wrote down his idea as a novel.
He had no extraordinary expectations. It was simply a bold little story that he wanted to write down for his children. Dean would have been amazingly happy if one day this little book could somehow find its way to becoming a published novel. But Rob Carlson, Dean’s agent and brass balled warrior of many years, saw far greater adventures ahead.
With Dean’s unpublished novel in hand, Rob took Hollywood by storm. What happened next was one of those situations every writer dreams of. A list directors were loving it left and right. Studios and producers were calling around the hour wanting to read the little book for themselves. It was an exciting week and even as a bystander I found myself caught up in the wave.
At the end of the journey the project was sold to Universal with Stephen Sommers (The Mummy movies, Van Helsing) attached.
So lift your glasses my friends and let’s make a toast.
Here’s to you, Dean Lorey,
We all hate you.
:)
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