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Okay, there is a register in Hollywood where movie titles can be reserved for several years, so that a project can proceed without fear that someone else will snap up the title.
One script I optioned, had a fairly outrageous title, that I thought sold the movie. I mean I thought it was brilliant. Not only didn’t Hollywood go for it, but they refused even to register it in their little title name club.
This very morning I hear from my producer that a major Hollywood director – not Peter Jackson, since I mentioned him before – said that he thinks the title is the best that he has ever heard. Even factoring in show business hyperbole, that is impressive. People either get it or they don’t.
So after grinding out a rewrite last weekend, the word is “Forget that script and rewrite the one with the brilliant title.”
The one huge point is that there were no games last weekend and this is the Super Bowl. Hello?
By the way, I thought this was sweet: If anybody gets badly hurt in the Super Bowl, Keith Richards has agreed to provide the pain-killers. Isn’t that nice?