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With Dean’s unpublished novel in hand, Rob took Hollywood by storm.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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Dean here. Thanks for the nice words, although I’m not sure I agree 100% with your photo selection — was it really necessary to choose a picture of me chewing taffy where it appears that most of my lower jaw is removed? That said, your positive thoughts are much appreciated (and pretty damn rare in this industry) and I would like to publicly thank you for your excellent notes on the first draft, which I then incorporated into the second draft, which you quickly read. Reading two drafts of a novel within a few days of each other is an Olympian feat and I’m sure there’s a high pedestal in Hell for you when you finally get there.