The Year of Development Hell (Part 7)...

Continued from a previous post...

Where would we go?

Nowhere.

Everyone that had been interested in the script/film before had gotten new work. All of the edits and re-writes that we made for the specific cast and crew now just weighed heavy on the script. As the writer, I was confused.

I tried to take this time to get back to our original draft, with a few of the edits left in. The original idea was loved in pitch form and had been optioned. I just wanted to take it back to the beginning and then build it up from there.

I/we were told flat out, NO! The script was liked and approved how it was and that version was NOT to change.

So, we weren’t allowed to make the script better. Our connection to the film had been relegated to…

doing research for our agent…

As fall turned in to winter, we heard less and less about the film. Our agent was still looking at other literary properties and sending them to us for evaluation as possible films or television projects.

As the New Year rolled around, we discussed whether we should try to relocate to Los Angeles OR shoot our own short film. Either way, we had decided that we would not offer another option on our script (any version of it). We would sell it outright if anyone wanted to buy it, but we no longer wanted to be involved with it.

We wanted to move on… we wanted to write and create… again.

(and so it continues...)

to be continued, again...

Don.