I've made a lot of progress on the new script. I am not done, but I am very close and I know what is remaining and I'm pleased with everything that has been changed and added. Whenever you aren't sure about something in a script. Cut it out. It's poison. It's wrong. You know. That's pretty much how I attacked this rewrite. I was not happy about how it ended, not so happy in the middle... However - I did like some of the stuff near the end. So, I cut out everything that I didn't like, made the stuff that I did like near the end... The actual end - then added a whole new adventure that provided a much bigger boost to what is now the end. And, I think it worked.
Why am I working on this script?
From the very beginning I said I was going to shoot a film this year. I did not specify what film. I need to shoot something full length for my career to progress. The other film started to seem like too big a horse to drag. Even though it was going to be excessively cheap for what the final product was - it was still going to cost enough that I wanted an insurance policy. I feel like this film will be so much less expensive that even if it didn't get a big sale and I ended up having to pay for it - that's okay. As long as it got out there a little bit.
Also - the other film was a genre film. A good one. However, it wasn't the most unique of the genre - nothing exploitable about it really - not THE grossest, not THE silliest, not THE scariest even. Just a good movie. This one is a different kind of movie altogether. If it works, it will have a strong niche market on it's own.
I've already started trying to set up a time to do a reading for it.
As for the other script - I'm just hunting down new financing avenues.
I'm also (I should admit) working on my "other job" for the next two weeks. I'm trying to hand it off more and more - but I'm not there yet. Soon I hope.
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