Quick work update:I heard back from the studio and producers about the pitch for my new sci-fi series. They were really happy with this last round of revisions and we feel like we’re ready to take it to market. Calls are being made, pitches are being set. Fingers crossed we find a good home. One other piece of great news, I landed an opportunity to work with a couple of creators that I’ve been a fan of for a long time. I’ll be working with them to craft a pitch for a new series based on the massive sci-fi story world they’ve been building for the past twenty years. I have a lifelong friend from back home who messages me every few years to tell me how great this would be as a series, how I should get my ass in gear and try to get this job. He’ll be the first person I call if we sell it.I had a couple of general meetings this week, one of them was with a guy I met when he was just branching out on his own as a producer back in 2013. I had just broken in with EXTANT and he drove to Orange County to meet me instead of having me drive up to LA to meet him. I never forgot that. Now he’s got a great job on the feature side at a studio. He’s like the producer we attached to my feature spec, HALF-LIGHT, one of those people I met early on who felt like a kindred spirit, somebody I hoped I’d cross paths with again. Chris Bianco says he’s not in the pizza business, he’s in the relationship business. When I look at a lot of the stuff that’s in motion right now, it comes down to long term relationships, to seeds that were planted going as far back as 2006 and cultivated over time. Over the past nine years I’ve been getting better at my craft and leveling up. So have many of the people I met who were assistants back in 2013, or people who were junior creative execs at studios and production companies. All it takes is one idea, one piece of IP that screams your name, a hole in the slate, a window of opportunity, and pretty soon there’s a confluence of events that brings you back together and gives you another shot at making something great together. I love that about this business.
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Quick work update:I heard back from the studio and producers about the pitch for my new sci-fi series. They were really happy with this last round of revisions and we feel like we’re ready to take it to market. Calls are being made, pitches are being set. Fingers crossed we find a good home. One other piece of great news, I landed an opportunity to work with a couple of creators that I’ve been a fan of for a long time. I’ll be working with them to craft a pitch for a new series based on the massive sci-fi story world they’ve been building for the past twenty years. I have a lifelong friend from back home who messages me every few years to tell me how great this would be as a series, how I should get my ass in gear and try to get this job. He’ll be the first person I call if we sell it.I had a couple of general meetings this week, one of them was with a guy I met when he was just branching out on his own as a producer back in 2013. I had just broken in with EXTANT and he drove to Orange County to meet me instead of having me drive up to LA to meet him. I never forgot that. Now he’s got a great job on the feature side at a studio. He’s like the producer we attached to my feature spec, HALF-LIGHT, one of those people I met early on who felt like a kindred spirit, somebody I hoped I’d cross paths with again. Chris Bianco says he’s not in the pizza business, he’s in the relationship business. When I look at a lot of the stuff that’s in motion right now, it comes down to long term relationships, to seeds that were planted going as far back as 2006 and cultivated over time. Over the past nine years I’ve been getting better at my craft and leveling up. So have many of the people I met who were assistants back in 2013, or people who were junior creative execs at studios and production companies. All it takes is one idea, one piece of IP that screams your name, a hole in the slate, a window of opportunity, and pretty soon there’s a confluence of events that brings you back together and gives you another shot at making something great together. I love that about this business.