tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post639317989662660324..comments2024-02-04T20:57:58.093-08:00Comments on Sex In A Submarine: 2002: Year Of The Treadmill (part three)wcmartellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18075242897910568801noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-90588823257177841732009-04-22T23:24:00.000-07:002009-04-22T23:24:00.000-07:00Probably what I should have done... but I was too ...Probably what I should have done... but I was too busy writing new treatments and coming up with 5 ideas for the next country.<br /><br />- Billwcmartellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18075242897910568801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-22388054939892201692009-04-22T01:14:00.000-07:002009-04-22T01:14:00.000-07:00Once you came up with that real good treatment tha...Once you came up with that real good treatment that got you all that other stuff, why couldn't you write that script on the side, while the producer kept changing his mind, so when crunch time came around, you could show him this script, and say, "Here, see, this is what I got. This is what we got. Let's go to work". But in a more subtle way.<br /><br />I havent sold anything so I don't know how the process works, but thats what I'd do. Sometimes when I get so frustrated waiting on other people, I just do the thing I'm waiting to do just to get it out of my system.<br /><br />I'm sorry to hear about the troubles you're having. Sounds like a movie I'd pay to see, and I haven't even heard any real stuff about that BOURNE treatment!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-10436184155054552662009-04-21T12:17:00.000-07:002009-04-21T12:17:00.000-07:00If that had happened, I would have bought the beer...If that had happened, I would have bought the beers, Martin! And put it on the producer's tab.<br /><br />- Billwcmartellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18075242897910568801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-80812905084481681562009-04-21T10:44:00.000-07:002009-04-21T10:44:00.000-07:00Well I for one hope it ends up in South Africa, an...Well I for one hope it ends up in South Africa, and they get those bladdy diamond smugglers.<br /><br />Martin B <br /><br />Writing from Cape Town, South Africa.Martin_Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872780969179149381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-63497494840209231482009-04-20T15:44:00.000-07:002009-04-20T15:44:00.000-07:00I agree laxel...
Was Mel Brooks the producer - an...I agree laxel...<br /><br />Was Mel Brooks the producer - and were cameras, sound, and lighting grips present?Rusty Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16143817211151177797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-20453850937819365332009-04-20T15:04:00.000-07:002009-04-20T15:04:00.000-07:00This so so friggin depressing. No wonder we all d...This so so friggin depressing. No wonder we all drink. Or whatever...LindaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708868001093706846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-84457934381860735342009-04-20T13:03:00.000-07:002009-04-20T13:03:00.000-07:00This story itself would probably make a great scri...This story itself would probably make a great script (screwball comedyish, with the writer uncovering an embezzlement scheme by the producer, writer being way over his head trying to uncover it), though probably a bit unbelievable for audiences, and maybe too close for comfort for Hollywood.<br /><br />I'll go out on a limb and guess that the S.A. treatment was good...<br />-but Van Damme drops out<br />-you rewrite the part for Kevin Bacon playing an attorney<br />-then S.A. falls through, and the production gets moved to Warsaw<br />-where instead of diamond smuggling, it becomes a movie about intellectual property rights and the Polish mafia attempting to strongarm the cultural ministry into granting them permanent control over pierogi production <br />-at which point you reach across the desk and strangle the producerlaxelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562390795850682066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-6437953647452402942009-04-20T11:47:00.000-07:002009-04-20T11:47:00.000-07:00There's a bar called The Library across the street...There's a bar called The Library across the street from the real LA Central Library that has the *best* grilled cheese sandwiches I have ever eaten.<br /><br />- Billwcmartellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18075242897910568801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-18707109319745077632009-04-20T11:41:00.000-07:002009-04-20T11:41:00.000-07:00"Gilled Cheese sandwiches at the Standard downtown..."Gilled Cheese sandwiches at the Standard downtown with a couple of attractive women, which are not nearly as good as the ones in the Library" yeah, those library chicks in their glasses and skirts are quite the... oh, you meant the sandwiches haAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-52028617743645813292009-04-20T11:07:00.000-07:002009-04-20T11:07:00.000-07:00It's always cracked me up that all the Hong Kong d...It's always cracked me up that all the Hong Kong directors fled to Hollywood after the handover to Red China, unsure if the government was going to put an end to all the decadence, only to return when they realized that Hollywood development was more oppressive than the Red Chinese.Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10598679791761825577noreply@blogger.com