Friday, February 13th, 2009
Bummer. So you know that script I wrote for Film Club that starred a local celebrity? Well, it was none other than Gus Gordon. I dropped the script off with him today in hopes that I'd hear back that he would love to help.

He sent me a very nice email tonight saying that he would not be able to be in our movie. The reason is that his station's parent company prohibits him from appearing in any outside video productions. He said he even had to stop doing commercials for a local company that he's done for many years.

That's a pretty big bummer. This was the first actual script that I've written, and it would have been a wonderful experience for the film club to produce.

Now the question is: do we move on with someone else, or do we scrap the project? I'm trying not to give away the story in case we move forward with it. But I just can't imagine anyone else playing that character.

This kind of feels like the let down we had when Apple canceled the Insomnia Film Festival right before we shot our movie. We were bummed, but we decided to move forward anyway. We could still make this movie I suppose. I guess I'll see what the club wants to do.

If you're in film club and are hearing about this here for the first time, sorry. But I had to vent so that I could move on.