Posted by Todd on November 8, 2007 · 4 Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ55Ir2jCxk
Here is a concise, entertaining rundown on the economics at stake here.
Filed under movies · Tagged with
Posted by Todd on November 8, 2007 · 9 Comments
Here’s how it works:
I get a call from my representation. They say “Todd! Big Producer has a project, Massive Pop Behemoth, and he’s only talking to a very few writers, and you’re one of them! He wants to hear your ideas!”
So I’m “in the game.” I’m not some poor schmuck with his nose pressed up against the glass, I have an invitation to play at the big table. I am grateful for this chance. I used to write experimental plays to be performed in 60-seat theaters with seven-foot ceilings on the Lower East Side, I probably shouldn’t even be here.
Read more
Posted by Todd on November 8, 2007 · 11 Comments
I will have more to say soon (I still have some work to do on another project) (that is, a project not covered by the WGA) (by which I mean, in fact, a play) about the writer’s strike, but in the meantime, Alec Baldwin has very kindly summed up the bulk of my feelings for me.
Filed under movies · Tagged with