From Ganymede

So. the script was dead…or seemed dead at least. It was going nowhere fast. For a year or more, it just sat, collecting dust. Molly when back to her other film projects, and I dove into the commercial world, updating my reel with anything and everything I could get my hands on.

A year or so later, I got an email from Molly saying she was going to renew the option on the book, that she liked the script, liked the project, and wanted to see who else she could send it to. Great. ok. Sounds good. But honestly, I didn’t expect anything.

Six months passed and i got an email through Molly from…(drumroll)…Peter Stormare (for those who don’t know: Stormare plays Satan in Constantine, Gaear Grimsrud in Fargo, the Eye Doctor in Minority Report, and John Abruzzi in “Prison Break”). The email read, “I am Richter (the bad guy). Count me in. Peter.” I freaked out! Someone likes the script, and that someone is PETER STORMARE! I was re-energized. I immediately went back to the script and started working on it again.

But as most stories like these go, that was a BIG BANG that fizzled fast. Six months later we were still nowhere closer to making the movie a reality.

It’s funny, though…Peter saying he liked it, and that he wanted to do it, really pushed me. The script didn’t suck. It might not be perfect, or the next Schindler’s List, but someone out there in the land of movies was saying “this doesn’t suck”. And that was enough to keep me moving.

To be continued…