“Full Moon Dick” keeps poping up on radar. Evidently some female wrestler is being courted for a script we wrote for Keifer Southerland. We’ve gone from Chevy Chase to Stone Cold Steve Austin and pretty much everybody in between. I’m pretty much ignoring the phone calls at this point. When they call to ask for the address to send a check then I’ll take it seriously.
Hensleigh and I met at a member’s only pub where he watches football (soccer). He’s a big guy. And forceful. We hit it off. I trust the guy. I think he knows how best to make the movie. He wants to cut out all of the “Basic Instinct” stuff. He wants the movie to be more about the lead than the case. Instead of calling it Riddle Me This he suggests we call it Mad Mike or something along the lines of Dirty Harry. I’ve heard he’s a hardass but he was very cool with me. He’s probably a hardass with execs and producers. Gonna tell Nicole to go forward with Hensleigh and Constantin.
No. It isn’t. This is nothing like a movie but that’s the sound bite that keeps playing over and over on the news. This is nothing like a movie. That’s the reason we’ve never seen this plot played out in a movie. Of all the screenewriters, execs and producers in the world…no one thought of this or we’d have seen the flick staring Arnold.
Seeing the flags in every window on our street brings tears. I’m very emotional right now and screw those who are not.
The phone kept ringing this morning. It was early. After about the third call I climbed out of bed and checked the messages. The first was from Blake Washer, webmaster of Fridaythe13.com. He simply said, “If you haven’t turned on the TV you need to do it now.” The second message was from Mel’s mom. She told of the plane flying into one of the towers.
Mel and I flicked on the TV and watched the first tower burn. We saw the second plane hit. We saw the towers fall. It’s the strangest feeling I’ve ever experienced. I’m numb.
I called Dean but he wasn’t home. Later I found out he’d driven out to meet Damon for a game of golf. Dean had no clue about what had happened. Damon tried to call him to cancel but Dean had already left. So Damon drove out to meet him and told him what had happened. Of course, Dean didn’t believe him at first…not unlike Damon to crack an off-color joke or two…but this time it was real.
Today Sarah and Natalie came over and the four of us went to the mall and walked around like zombies. I think we all cried. Right there in the food court. No one cared. Others were crying too.
The world will change. America will stand together. Differences will be forgotten for some time before fingers start getting pointed. Tomorrow I’m going to go buy a flag.
“Riddle Me This” has had two bites. Madonna’s company, Maverick, has made a very low offer for an option.
Constantin has matched it.
Jonathan Hensleigh has read it and liked it and is considering the role of director. With Jonathan attached the deal would go down at Constantin.
The difference between the two companies is that Constantin has the money to make it. With Maverick we’d have to develop it the way they want then go out to studios and try to sell it. With Constantin, Jonathan and I would develop it and if Constantin liked it then they’d put up the money to make it.
Nicole’s setting a meeting for Jonathan and me to meet and talk. Hensleigh is a power house writer in the action genre. “Armageddon”, “Jumanji”, “Die Hard III”, “The Rock”…not a bad guy to be in bed with. I could probably learn a trick or two from him.