Thursday, June 26, 2008

David K. (The other writer) (June 25)

David runs a business involving sports down in Florida, he has a family. I've never met him in person.

The four of us had a conference call while I was on a train back to Jersey from the city. I was expecting David to be an incoherent moron based on the script I had read but in reality, his ideas about writing actually sounded similar to mine when he cited the need for story structure and knowing where you're going and having character development. Anybody who's ever taken a writing class knows these things but it was refreshing to have somebody speaking my language. We actually ended up talking about Lost for quite a bit.

It's too bad Dick was so set in his ideas, we might have been able to salvage the show. He had decided that our 4th-6th episodes would deal with the cast at another party playing a truth or dare-esque card game. This was a VERY SIMPLE game that Dick created and hoped to sell on the website. You can maybe see now that he was so much thinking about "plot". It was even more frustrating that he kept comparing our show to Quarterlife which had just been picked up by NBC due to the strike. I'm still trying to figure out if he actually believed it was good or if there was some other motivation behind the whole thing and he just wanted to fool us into thinking this was good.

Well the discussion came and went. David and I spoke privately and admitted that neither of us wanted our names on this project anymore and would gladly let the other write whatever they wanted. He wrote the third part. I ridiculous scene between three cops and having none of the main cast except the one who had been undercover hanging out with them...there was a subplot (i mean 9 second clip) of him being jerked off by one of the gay characters. Dick thought this made the show edgy. It makes me angry just thinking about it.

Communication broke down after that, but I did meet with them one last time on December 13th. I went into the city and Danilo took me and Dick out for dinner and drinks. He told me that he had gotten a business loan and the three of us would be on salary in the next couple months and work on producing several projects we had been talking about. I was pretty excited, if the money was good I didn't much care what I was doing.

The next day I got a call from CESD, where I had interviewed the previous week. I had a job. A real job. I never looked back. Revelation 125 has made no progress since, however I am friendly with several of the actors some of who work with my agency and others who I see time and again through my work at the PIT.

If you want to see Revelation 125, I can get you a link.


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