This is an adventure.

Well, that’s not true.  Adventures have exciting sequences in which you are fighting for your life.  Those back-to-the-wall, ungracious, flailing, violent, completely wonderful brawls that so rarely really occur, that s ... [read more]

10:27 pm

Posted in Uncategorized, life, planning, script · 131 Comments »

Disappointing but not unexpected news…  We’ve had our first official pass on the project by a studio.  The call came late yesterday.

While there is always a tinge of hurt that comes with any rejection, we are not discouraged in the ... [read more]

4:01 pm

Posted in collaborators, communications, planning · 71 Comments » ·  tags: disappointment, not worried, pass, rejection, tricks

Back in good-old Indiana.  We walked in from the airport at 3:45 am yesterday morning.  It would have been nice to make a triumphant return - a ticker-tape parade and perhaps a few “Hail Caesar’s”, but sadly it was much less ceremon ... [read more]

5:07 pm

Posted in collaborators, communications, planning · 87 Comments » ·  tags: anna, conference room, confusion, Cory, executive, isaac, jason, lot, panic, Pitch, story, studio, work, Yale

Okay, so that title didn’t really pan out like I’d hoped it would.  Just doesn’t quite have the ring I was looking for.  Oh well.

Anyway,  I’m exhausted.  It’s currently 3:20 am LA time and I thought I’d w ... [read more]

5:44 am

Posted in collaborators, communications, life, planning · 110 Comments » ·  tags: caughee, coffee, exhausted, junior executive, koffee, no sleep, pich, Pitch, pytch, studio executive, talk, transcript of events

…Okay, so we’re still winding up.  But things are progressing nicely and we’ve been hard at work building the content for our PITCH THIS MONTH.

Many documents floating back and forth between LA and here as we work with our par ... [read more]

12:32 am

Posted in collaborators, planning, website · 153 Comments » ·  tags: Cory, partners, PITCH THIS MONTH, sizzle reel, website

In response to my “Memo” post, we received an email from a community member named 75th Trombone.   He wanted to direct us to his blog where he’s shared some of his thoughts and concerns about our project.  I’m pleased by his p ... [read more]

2:48 am

Posted in communications, planning, script · 195 Comments » ·  tags: 75th Trombone, action, animatic, blah blah blah, boring, intentions, lame, memo

So, I wrote an internal memo today in response to Prince of Persia’s performance in the box office.  When a video game movie fails to perform as it was expected while we’re trying to sell a movie based on a video game to the studios, it ca ... [read more]

12:28 am

Posted in collaborators, communications, planning · 83 Comments » ·  tags: bad news for Myst, memo, partners, Prince of Persia, video game movies

So I’m only a month late, but I’m delivering as promised. Here’s some of the video from our wonderful trip to Cyan. I had to run through and edit it some to make sure we didn’t show any thing top secret. No seriously - there was ... [read more]

6:50 pm

Posted in Stuff, collaborators, life, planning · 220 Comments » ·  tags: adrian, Cyan, isaac, Micah, Spokane, Travels, videos

Well, it’s April 1st and I was presented with the option of either doing the whole “April Fools” thing or giving you guys your much requested minimum of one update per month.  I’ve chosen to play it straight and go the update r ... [read more]

5:25 pm

Posted in collaborators, communications, planning, website · 161 Comments » ·  tags: crazy, L.A., meetings, needy fans, partners, trip