Hollywood giveth, and Hollywood taketh away. As you know if you've been reading my columns the past few months, I was recently fortunate enough to option one of my screenplays. Maybe that does happen for a few lucky people. It didn't for me. The company that optioned my script really believed in the project and worked extremely hard to get it going.
Happy time is over.
Well, yes and no. For about 15 minutes. That's all I would allow myself. Just about every year, a really hot idea gets into the creative mists and everybody jumps on it. Well, my first impulse, of course, was simply to stick that script in a drawer and wait a few years until the premise is fresh again before trying to market it.