Getting The Deal

In April of 2004, we heard from our friend at Wendy Finerman productions that they were planning on doing a sequel to the hugely successful film DRUMLINE. We lobbied for the job, submitted a sample script, were asked to pitch our take on the sequel (in late June), then heard that we were in the finals (in late August), then went in to pitch to Wendy and the brass at Fox (in September) and then finally heard about landing the gig in mid October.

As you can see the process took quite a long time.

I'm going to be chronicling the process of putting that script on paper and the finally on to the screen.

This is our first writing gig, and it puts us in the Writer's Guild of America, so we're finally professional, paid writers.

Oh, something I neglected to mention is that our friend at Wendy Finerman's he had taken a script out about a year before the Drumline gig first came up, so he was already familiary with our work and confident that we could come up with something strong.

Ironically, another good writer friend of mine KNOWS the exec in charge of Drumline 2 and had invited me to go hiking with them numerous times in the past and I neglected to go -- that could have saved me a bunch of time, perhaps got us the deal a lot quicker, easier. But that's an example of the missed opportunities I've had in Hollywood.