Critical Thinking
We Will Be Interviewing You, Too.
Do you feel startled, amused, or perhaps even taken aback by some of our statements here?
Our tone and word choice reflect our passion about SF&F and the craft of screenplay adaptation, our serious intention as regards maintaining highest standards of integrity, and our respect for your investment of time in considering us as screenwriting partners. Yes, we are direct and to the point. This may, at some junctures, read as being a bit brash relative to the usual diplomatic tip-toeing-on-eggshells routine at which corporate drones must become proficient. We feel so fortunate not to be corporate drones!
To clarify, we have the greatest of respect for any team which has managed the incredibly difficult journey of taking an idea through all the assorted pitfalls and perils between concept and opening night, even the Lemons. Doing so is a huge task and demands both real talent and enormous time on task with the hard work of movie-making. We aspire to become worthy to wash the feet and kiss the hem of even the Lemon-makers' robe ... and to learn from them so as to avoid repeating their mistakes, as measured by investor return and critical acclaim alike.
Mistakes equate to financial losses and failure to net a profit, ultimately, so it is important to understand them when they occur. Some types of mistakes are essentially technical in nature and fairly easily avoided, once one is cognizant of them, while other types may stem from apparent defects of character. This second class of error is tougher to cope with in production. Running a post-mortem analysis on the Lemons is highly instructive, if perhaps not particularly flattering to particular individuals when the error is, say, one of stealing other peoples' work without giving credit and compensation. We are frank in our appraisal of this particular (and all too common) pitfall. You, we trust, do not want lawsuits for plagiarism nor the bad rep which attaches in the court of public opinion even if the legal team manages to squirm out of a guilty legal verdict and paying damages. We do not want to work with anyone who is OK with figuring credit can be jumped.
Hopefully our candor comes across as a refreshing breath of fresh air and you are amused rather than dismayed by our evaluations of Trophies versus Lemons and the quick one-liner reasons we give as to the whys & wherefores thereof. If so, then let's do lunch!