Managing Our Own Expectations

As Charlie has announced to one and all, there is movement of sorts on Siege.

Paperwork is over to Producer Dude, My Agent has the script. Likes the script. I don't know if My Agent is sending it to Big Company right now or waiting to get Paperwork back. But it will happen soon.

Siege will be in the hands of a Big Company, and it is not unsolicited. It is requested.

So now we wait. As Charlie said, I have had dealings with Big Company before. I met with them in LA, talks went well. They like me, I like them. But there is one thing I have learned from my experiences with them.

They take their time.

We cold give Siege to them today. I doubt we'd hear anything back from them before March.

In some ways, that's the pace of Hollywood when you're not yet The Shit. Charlie and I are not The Shit. We'd like to become The Shit, and are doing everything we can to become The Shit. But right now, we're not The Shit. We're Some Guys. Some Guys don't get their scripts placed at the top of the pile. Some Guys have to wait for Big Executives to get bored and drill through more important things, like reading scripts from The Shit.

So what can we do while we wait? Write something else. We should be getting notes on our completed Pueblo/Manic Cop/Jungle epic soon. That will give us something to do. I should get word on my own latest Horror script soon, that will give me something else to do. I have a call later this month for my TV project, that gives me something to stress about. Charlie's writing a new version of an old script of mine. I'm working on a bunch of things.

So the best thing we can do now (once Paperwork is out of the way) is forget Siege ever existed until told otherwise. Though it may be months, Big Company WILL get back to us. They may get back to us and say "No." but we WILL hear something.

So until then... Siege? What Siege? Didn't that star Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington?