I was contacted by a production company to read on of my scripts. He gave me some pretty sound advice but in the end he felt the script, while had great dialogue and a strong ending, didn't have a strong enough story to sustain 120 pages. He said it would make a great play given the vast amounts of good dialogue but not a movie. So, because he saw that I had strong writing skills, I took this opportunity to pitch 3 other scripts and he loved them. Here's my problem...
I told him I was finished with the one he wanted to read and that wasn't exactly true. I am about 50% done and I have the entire thing written out in my head, except for this one part in the second act. I am really struggling to get around it. I am wondering, should I just phone it in and move on or should just wait it out? I have about a week to get the draft finished and all that, and he has assured me if it's good he can get it into the hands of a very well known actor (Oscar nominated even) and something could be happening with it by early next month. Not sure what he meant by that. "Something happening" could be warming his family by the fire, but this is a pretty big opportunity for me.
What's your advice? So that I may ignore it and embrace my own plan. haha Seriously though, what would you do?
I told him I was finished with the one he wanted to read and that wasn't exactly true. I am about 50% done and I have the entire thing written out in my head, except for this one part in the second act. I am really struggling to get around it. I am wondering, should I just phone it in and move on or should just wait it out? I have about a week to get the draft finished and all that, and he has assured me if it's good he can get it into the hands of a very well known actor (Oscar nominated even) and something could be happening with it by early next month. Not sure what he meant by that. "Something happening" could be warming his family by the fire, but this is a pretty big opportunity for me.
What's your advice? So that I may ignore it and embrace my own plan. haha Seriously though, what would you do?