Comments on: Another rewrite weekend…

By: wcdixon

wcdixon — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:47:47 +0000

Right is good…I guess I’m too used to tv where they want it RIGHT NOW. I’ve written 3 half hours and rewritten 2 other half hours in the past two months and 4 of the 5 have been shot already. But I know, thats tv.

By: Unk

Unk — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:44:40 +0000

Will,

Yeah, on ONE HAND, you could say that it’s taking forever. But then, when you go to the theater and watch the current batch of films, you keep remembering WHY you’re taking the time to get it right…

And a very good line I learned from Clive over at $1000 Spielberg that I use quite often now is…

“DO YOU WANT IT RIGHT OR DO YOU WANT IT RIGHT NOW?”

So far, it seems to keep working for me… LOL.

Unk

By: wcdixon

wcdixon — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:53:01 +0000

Dude

Tell me(us) this rewrite is near completion…it’s taking forever, no?

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:00:42 +0000

Cool stuff. But, if they were paying me not to f-up, I’d never get paid. :)

I do like the sound of all that money going to a writer, though. About time.

And Robert Altman is more an inspiration than ever!

By: caroline

caroline — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:31:39 +0000

I concur with Miriam … that was funny, especially on the heels of a friend telling me he thought the Da Vinci Code was a fantastic novel (seriously).

Hope you’re having good re-writing. Glad you’re still in the land of the living.

By: Sal

Sal — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:25:39 +0000

Glad to see you’re alive! Thanks for the post on rewrites – I start my big rewrite next week. Hope to emerge with an even better script at the end of it.

Am just off to read the articles having seen Miriam’s post!

By: Miriam Paschal

Miriam Paschal — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:55:02 +0000

I haven’t read through all of the articles, but I read the one on Goldsman getting $4 mil not to fuck up the sequel too badly. I laughed until I cried at that one line: “…to cut and paste shitty Dan Brown dialogue into Final Draft…”

OMG, too fucking funny!