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Originally Posted by Vodstok
Great, thanks! :)
Anything to get my foot in the door. When you did those scripts, did you write as if someone of say, Ridley Scott caliber was going to read it, even though you knew it was going to get ripped apart and made into amudpie by some hack? Basically, always pour yourself into it, or did you just treat it as a paycheck?
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Unlike normal screenwriting - the first draft on these were always the best draft, then the dumbfuck producers come along and rip the guts out.
The first Gryphon draft had the heroes pinched between an army of zombies, (AoD anyone) a giant Basilisk and its hundred writhing offspring and the aerial attack of the Gryphon.
We had air battles and eyes being gouged out and such...then the producers say "we can't do that for $900,000" so it gets trimmed and trimmed. Then they rip the best dialogue bits out and ask it to be replaced with "something more heroic" meaning "shitty".
And god forbid you try to inject any comedy into the piece - the Network hates that. Still don't know how we copnvinced them to let us do Mammoth as an out-and-out comedy.
By the end of the process you want to shoot everyone.
You know I was actually in a good mood until I started reliving that process - thanks a ton Vod;)