FINALS

June 2009.
Jesus Christ, the little script that thought it could. Pizza is now in the finals. I can’t believe it. I was convinced that if nothing else, someone would think that there is no way they could shoot it on the budget they have. I guess that must not be a factor in their thinking yet. I’m starting to feel really sick now and my brain is doing a Vicky Pollard of “Yeah but no but yeah, but no but yeah”. I have a look at the other titles. All of them sound better than mine, and one in particular Across The Water sounds really intriguing? What water? What’s across it? Dammit I want to know. I can’t help but think back to a Terry Rossio article about the importance of screenplay titles (apparently someone paid half a million dollars just for the title RANSOM – nearly a hundred thousand dollars per letter – nice work if you can get it) wherein he mentioned that one of the words to avoid like a syphilitic rodent was LEGEND. Should have changed the bloody title when I had the chance.