Gotta Drop the Kids off at the Pool

My daughter is tall. So tall that the four and five year old girls at the park assume she’s four or five years old. Of course, since she’s only two years old, the four or five year old girls assume she’s a retarded four or five. That’s fun. Watching her run up to them with glee and they in turn flee from her screaming. Made me wonder how far you can drop kick a four year old. While that sounds fun I’d much rather punch a parent in the forehead for teaching intolerance.
Fortunately, young Ms. Izzie Rain got her daddy’s ego. She shrugged and went to hang out with the four and five year old boys. They tend to stare at her dreamily anyway so it was a good fit. But they did notice something was different. In fact, one charming little fella asked in a very older-than-normal cadence, “How old are you??” Izzie’s mother informed the young lad that Izzie was only two. He stared in shock. She was afterall, taller than he. Was he offended? Disgusted? Did he throw up in his mouth a little bit? Nope, he thought it was cool. Superhero cool. So, he and Izzie and the other boys, dug in the sand with plastic shovels and rakes much to the horror of the snotty little four and five year old girls. Get used to it little darlings. How sad that you will never measure up.
Let’s do a quick run down of the current happenings.
I’m knee deep within the screenplay for Devil’s Commandos.
I’ve also just started writing a screenplay with Steve Niles.
This week I turned in the final draft of my animated TV pilot to Sony.
Monkey’s Paw is in discussions with a director.
I’m currently negotiating a deal for Wolfbane, a screenplay I wrote based on an idea my neighbor Allen Spiegel and I came up with.
Patrick Lussier and I are negotiating a deal for a second project with the same company.
Lussier and I also have two other projects in development which we will co-write.
And now for the Bloody updates. Patrick has been in ADR all week. We had written assorted lines for the ADR sessions and Patrick sounds pretty giddy about the results. I believe next week we head to Skywalker for the mix. I’m tickled about it. Skywalker! I grow’d up with the Star Wars you know.
Over the last few weeks Michael Wandmacher has been writing the score. Every day or so a new song or two arrive. And holy creepy music Batman! They are incredible. Often I will write while listening to scores. I find it less distracting than songs with lyrics. It’s because I’m weak. I have such a glorious tenor voice that I can’t help but sing. Michael’s score is unbelievable. In fact, as I’m writing this, “Human Pincushions” starts to play and its AWESOME goes to eleven!

Devin Lussier, Patrick’s son, sent an album cover for iTunes which he put together based on the Comcon teaser poster. As you can tell…awesome.
Although a couple of the LG execs have been knuckleheads and the company as a whole is insultingly prickish in how little it is willing to pay…those negatives aside…the experience…the creative experience has been joyous. I would be more than happy making movies with this same group for the rest of my life. Not LG mind you. They have issues. I might be willing to give them a second chance but they really gonna have to step up, grow up and show a little more respect than they did on this last one. But everyone else? Golden gods, the lot of them.
I’ve seen several cuts of the film and it just keeps getting better. And now we’ve got this…unbelievable score. There’s one sequence…I get goosebumps. They crawl up my arms, my neck, the back of my head. I simply couldn’t be more proud.
I gotta tell you, dear readers (all three of you who were searching for farming supplies and got routed here by mistake), there are sixteen million tiny events that can go wrong when making a film. This crew…these actors…this director…destroyed them all. I have said this before but every project I have worked on inevitably took a giant step backwards. It’s like climbing a hill and getting knocked back. 10 out of 9.5 times you end up tumbling down the hill. That did NOT happen on MBV. I saw us get knocked back. Saw us get knocked back several times. Held my breath, grabbed my nuts and expected the tumble. But Patrick EvilSlayer Lussier dug in his feet and physically yanked the movie up the hill with him. In 13 years I’ve never seen anything like it. Yes, the crew was outstanding and took everything thrown at them. And yes the actors were unbelievable. They levitated the characters beyond my wildest dreams. But Lussier…he was simply astounding. Someone should write a book.
The hill analogy works. Picture this guy, pulling a wagon up a hill. The wagon itself looks hefty enough to be a challenge. Meanwhile you got a handful of knuckleheads standing at the top of the hill. They’re clearing rocks out of the way for the wagon. You see, they THINK they are helping. They WANT to help. Problem is they don’t know how to help. They’re mostly winging it. Faking it. And in their knuckleheaded way, they end up pounding the poor climber with their rocks. No matter. Battered, bruised and bleeding, the climber (let’s name him Pat for no apparent reason) just kept climbing. He’s still climbing. And every now and then I’ll still catch wind of a rock that shattered his knee or dislocated his shoulder. Still he climbs.
He climbs because that’s what he does. You can pound him with rocks. You can screw with his credit. You can screw with his money. Doesn’t matter. He’ll keep climbing. He’ll make the best movie possible in spite of you.
By the way, Prodigal Son is now playing. Goosebumps.
There has been some speculation as to which will be better MBV or F13. As many know F13 will always have a special place in my heart. I’m part of the club. I know the secret handshake. But…sorry, guys. I’ve seen MBV several times now and it’s awesome. While I haven’t seen F13, it doesn’t matter. F13 has the bigger name. But we’re the better movie. :)
Yes. Let the cage match…begin. I can’t wait!
So, what’s next? Well, tonight are the Scream Awards. No. I wasn’t invited. Our friends Jensen Ackles and Jaime King will be there. Not sure about Kerr, but I’m sure many of our giant crew will be there. As for me, I wrote ten pages this morning. It’s Saturday I know but whut ya gonna do? Shortly I’m gonna join the wife for some yoga. Unfortunately that isn’t secret code for hawt sex. We really are gonna go do yoga. Then I might join her online to play some World of Warcraft because I’ve been writing my puhtootee off and I need a break.
In closing, I will let my daddy nature take over.

Yup. I’m two. Eatin me some noodles and chicken at the CPK. It’s how I roll.

Yup. I’m perty tall. S’okay though. I make up for it by being unnaturally good looking. And humble. Like my daddy.

Yup. Even fairy princesses have grumpy days. Just get over or I will smite thee.

M’kay. Gonna have to ask you folks to move along. I gotta drop the kids off at the pool.