Hands over your ears and stand well back. I’m about to blow my own trumpet.
The very wonderful folks at AV Pictures have optioned my romantic comedy The Perfect Guy!
So as The Fonz would say…
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What?? I couldn’t hear you. I had my hands over my ears
That’s great news Dave. Just been over to the AV pictures website, and it’s great news…really great news…well done…I’m really happy for you. It’s just….
…THEY’VE GOT A FILM COMING OUT WITH WEREWOLVES FIGHTING GLADIATORS!!!
I’m so happy. I may actually go to the cinema for this!
…I mean I’m happy about your film too, of course. Well done…great news.
…I am genuinely happy for you by the way.
Thanks Jimbo. You’re right though. There’s no way I’m going to top werewolves fighting gladiators. I mean I neither have gladiators or werewolves in my script. I do have a gorillia but it’s not battling anything.
Brilliant news Dave, go on my son!
I’d also like to say that I’ve had the privilege of reading your script and I stand by my critique that the werewolves & gladiators would have detracted from the overall comedic effect.
But I could be wrong……
You’ve got a gorilla??? Then you’re golden – a gorilla in a comedy (even rom-com…no, make that especially rom-com) trumps werewolves-versus-gladiators for commercial appeal.
I need to reasses everything I’ve written or will ever write.
I’m starting to love AV pictures! Rom-coms with gorillas and action pictures with werewolves and gladiators? If they produce a touching coming-of-age drama with flesh-eating bacteria I’m going to declare them prod-co of the century.
I am seriously going to keep an eye out for them, and your film. Hope it goes smoothly and turns into a monster!
Jimbo, when it comes to movies, you and me definitely walk to the beat of the same drum.
And a particularly strange drum at that. But I do like the idea of Werewolves v Gladiators, I think it’s where the whole Alien/Predator concept went wrong.
My own high-concept project would involve Ninjas versus…..Nuns!
Not quite sure where my sympathies lie with that scenario though. Evil Nuns? Evil Ninjas? Perhaps both could join forces against a common foe? Any ideas anyone?