Spielberg’s agent sent my letter back, but what he didn’t count on was that I also sent a copy directly to the Bearded One at Dreamworks. Like apples, do you? Well how do you like them apples?
Contacted a certain British actor’s agent regarding one of the major supporting roles and was invited to send the script. The agent’s assistant asked what the projected budget and timeframe are, who else is attached, who the producer is and so on – not questions I was able to answer at this stage. Maybe I’m going about this in the wrong order, but then maybe it’s a vicious circle. Can’t get the names until you’ve got the financing; can’t get the financing until you’ve got the names. Or possibly: can’t get the names until you’ve got a budget drawn up; can’t draw up the budget until you’ve got an experienced producer on board; can’t get an experienced producer on board until you’ve got financing; can’t get financing until you’ve got a budget drawn up. Clearly there’s no point in me drawing up a budget…. Production Design:

Called a famous actress’s manager in LA and got told to call back when the film has financing. A similar thing happened a few months ago with a British name actress, only in that case the agent cruelly invited me to send the script, only to send it back to me immediately without reading it. So many people on my hit list for when I’m rich enough to afford an assassin.
Rebekah Tatlow, a survivor of Soul Searcher, is on board for special make-up effects.

I wrote to Steven Spielberg.
Stop laughing. Have you got any better ideas?

Well, Mike Tucker doesn’t think I’m mad, but he wants to meet up, so that could all change…

I know, I know. It’s been an obscenely long time since my last entry. The Soul Searcher DVD had me working flat out throughout January and since then I’ve been taking a well-deserved rest. I did manage to finish the second draft of the Shadowland script a few weeks ago, however. It’s still got at least one major problem in it, but I’ve sorted out all the unanswered questions that the first draft posed. Yesterday I advertised for more concept artists. As expected, some of the original artists have fallen by the wayside, leaving only David Ayling and Ian Tomlinson still working on it at present.
Last week I tracked down Mike Tucker and his company The Model Unit using this new-fangled information superhighway thingy. Mike was one of the main guys behind Red Dwarf’s fantastic model effects and his company now does all the models for Doctor Who – spaceships crashing into Big Ben, the new Daleks, etc. Anyhoo, I wrote to Mike briefly explaining my project and got quite a positive response. I’m now waiting to hear what he makes of the script. I expect he’ll think I’m bonkers.