This sudden reappearance of a screenplay after a quarter century strikes me as a swan song from the gods. I've been "retired" as an active screenwriter for some time. But here I am, polishing as good a story as I've been involved in.
Moreover, there's considerable marketing energy in my collaborator and his/our agent. I can let it go, confident I went out with my best work as a craftsman.
I remain as cynical of the market as ever. But what a nice retirement gift to be proven wrong.
It's a hell of a good story ... and now a damn good contemporary spec script. (And I have a new visceral understanding why producers hate clutter.)
Moreover, there's considerable marketing energy in my collaborator and his/our agent. I can let it go, confident I went out with my best work as a craftsman.
I remain as cynical of the market as ever. But what a nice retirement gift to be proven wrong.
It's a hell of a good story ... and now a damn good contemporary spec script. (And I have a new visceral understanding why producers hate clutter.)
