From Ganymede

So, there we were, with a script that SOMEONE liked, but no real avenues to go down. We continued to send the script out, but it didn’t seem to catching on. A few people expressed interest, thought it was a good project, but ultimately moved on to other things.

And that’s where it stayed - in Limbo - for another year or two.

Then, about a year ago, something happened. A few random decisions, each seemingly unrelated, came together to provide a new, rejuvenated draft of the script.

Decision #1 - I decided to take some time off of work - just a week or two to recharge. I had been working alot, and was really starting to feel the burnout coming.

Decision #2 - Get out of New York for a while. The city was starting to weigh on me a bit and I needed to find some space. So I decided to go out to the desert. I like it there. I LOVE it there, actually. The landscape, the quiet, the big skies. It’s the exact opposite of NY and that was what i needed.

Decision #3 - Do some writing. I hadn’t done any writing in a while, and I knew I wanted to. It always gets my juices flowing, clears my head, de-stresses me. But I wasn’t sure what I wanted to work on.

Then Molly called and reminded me that it was time to renew the option for “Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede”. That was it. I’ll spend a little casual time in the desert with the ol’ “Buddy” script.

I re-read the script a few days later, and something clicked. I guess, it was me thinking about my up coming time in the desert and the road trip that drives the Buddy script at the same time. Thoughts started to get tangled, interweave, and it hit me. This road movie didn’t need to be Topeka, Kansas to Lubbock, Texas as it was scripted. It NEEDS to be across the desert. I don’t know why that made sense, but it did. I immediately liked it better. It wasn’t that it didn’t work in the book as Topeka to Lubbock, because it did - it does - but for the movie, it needed a different stage. It needed the DESERT.

To be continued…