Giant Lizards
October 19, 2009
I had a conversation with my agent recently. He was responding to my new spec. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of writing an indie dramedy. It’s not based on a board game, a remake or a comic book…not even a cereal box character. It was doomed from the start.
“The writing is great.”
Oh?
“But I can’t sell it. No one buys a movie like this now.”
Oh…
“Give me something high concept. That I can sell…but not until next year since no one’s buying anything right now.”
So let me see if I’ve got this straight. You can’t sell this because it’s not high concept. But even if it were, you couldn’t sell it because no one’s buying anything right now anyway?
“Basically, but there are always exceptions.”
So couldn’t there be exceptions about my dramedy?
“No.”
Oh…
I should have added giant lizards, set it on a space station and done it as a comic book first.
