Continued from a previous post...
The (option) year was not over yet… We still had a few more highs and lows in front of us…
For Christmas, our agent let us know that he was aggressively pursuing the money men to get the film back on track. About a week or so after New Years we received a call from our agent, he told us that he was in NYC and would be meeting with people with money.
Friday night, we received a late night e-mail, sent from his phone… most probably while at a club in the city. He said that the meetings had gone well and that we should expect to hear from him by Monday and that we would then receive our contracts and checks for low six-figures within two weeks.
We didn’t want to get our hopes up…
But we started to “plan”. RnD would take a good portion of our checks to pay down our debts. Then, we were going to take time off from our IT jobs and head to L.A. for a few months. We were doing all the research… without getting our hopes up.
Then Monday came and… we heard nothing. Tuesday… Wednesday… By Friday we were concerned. Why hadn’t we heard anything? Phone calls, e-mails, texts all went unanswered.
Two weeks later… We received an e-mail from an assistant that our agent never had and explained that his agency was merging with a literary agency. It was mostly matter of fact but included a few questions.
As I stated previously, RnD had wanted to get rid of this albatross of a script and move one. Included with our answers was the fact that we would not offer our script up for option again. They could buy it or we would keep it to fix and pitch it again.
Within a week, coincidentally, was the option date of our script. A few days after that…
We received an e-mail from yet another new person at this new merged literary agency. Our services would no longer be required…
We never heard from our (now former) agent… again.
(The funny thing is that a number of his former “talent” have since gone on to bigger careers than they ever had when they were at his agency.)
Not really the end…
Not quite a new beginning…
Don.
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