Good Luck Joe9

[ducky1288]

Good luck Joe on your spec "Paroled". Saw some territories are being requested :)

[cshel]

Woo hoo, Joe! Break a pencil! Good karma is coming your way! :)

[LIMAMA]

Double karma coming your way....

:)

[nic.h]

Really hope this comes through big time for you, Joe. Good guys are supposed to win. :)

[_M_]

Fingers crossed !!!

M.

[Johnny]

Congrats! :) Great news hope it works out.

[Joe Unidos]

Crossed fingers and toes.

[sc111]

Go - Joe - go! :bounce:

[Richmond Weems]

Good luck, Joe!

HH

[monalisa]

Woot!! Good luck!:bounce:

[Harbinger]

Good luck, Joe. Hit another winner for the DD massive!

[Brice]

Good luck! I like the logline...

[Geoff Alexander]

I betcha Emmet Furla or Millenium buy it. Good luck Joe!

[joe9alt]

Thanks everybody. Hopefully the work pays off.

[jimbo]

Great news. Good luck!

[Why One]

Good luck, Joe!!! :)

[jeannie517]

Woohoo!!! Good luck & please keep us posted!

[Lisa Super]

Best of luck, Joe!

[Jules]

Sic balls, Joe!!!

[Hilario113]

Into the bigs! SBScript may have underestimated you!

Fingers crossed!!

[Jules]

Anyone got a logline?

[emily blake]

Parole - Follows a parolee who is forced by his parole officer to commit increasingly worse crimes.

[Jules]

Sounds promising.

[Geoff Alexander]

Into the bigs! SBScript may have underestimated you!

Fingers crossed!!

I hope that Joe doesn't think I was "underestimating him" and I'd appreciate if you didn't misrepresent what I said. If you know what kinds of movies Millenium and Emmet Furla are doing and the space they occupy in the marketplace right now you'd see a sale to a company like that as possibly a very good thing.

Now I haven't read the script, so I can only respond to the logline. But, based on the logline, premise, and genre, it APPEARS to be something that could get bought...and made...quickly by a solid independent or mini-major. A quick path to production is the best outcome. It doesn't, to me, appear on the surface to be an obvious studio project. But, again, I haven't read it so I have no way of knowing. If it's more "The Departed" than it is "Narc", then yeah, maybe it does make sense for Sony or Warners, but based on the surface appearance it comes across as more Lionsgate than Warners.

Also, big studio based producers have so many projects on their slate, that sometimes it is a longer path than it may be with a motivated independent. So, that's why, IMO a sale to a company that is clearly making movies like yours, rather than a bigger, prestige company that isn't clearly making movies like yours is on balance possibly a better way to go.

I'm a fan of Joe's, I'm pulling for him, I would like to see him sell the script to the company most likely to make the best possible version of the movie while paying the most possible amount of money.

[Hilario113]

I hope that Joe doesn't think I was "underestimating him" and I'd appreciate if you didn't misrepresent what I said. If you know what kinds of movies Millenium and Emmet Furla are doing and the space they occupy in the marketplace right now you'd see a sale to a company like that as possibly a very good thing.

Now I haven't read the script, so I can only respond to the logline. But, based on the logline, premise, and genre, it APPEARS to be something that could get bought...and made...quickly by a solid independent or mini-major. A quick path to production is the best outcome. It doesn't, to me, appear on the surface to be an obvious studio project. But, again, I haven't read it so I have no way of knowing. If it's more "The Departed" than it is "Narc", then yeah, maybe it does make sense for Sony or Warners, but based on the surface appearance it comes across as more Lionsgate than Warners.

Also, big studio based producers have so many projects on their slate, that sometimes it is a longer path than it may be with a motivated independent. So, that's why, IMO a sale to a company that is clearly making movies like yours, rather than a bigger, prestige company that isn't clearly making movies like yours is on balance possibly a better way to go.

I'm a fan of Joe's, I'm pulling for him, I would like to see him sell the script to the company most likely to make the best possible version of the movie while paying the most possible amount of money.

Dude, chill. It was all in good fun. Maybe I should have added one of these :bounce: to make my tone a little more clear.

And FWIW I agree, this seems like a perfect fit for a well-funded indie prodco like the two you mentioned.

[OGWAVES]

Joe's a hard working, talented writer! BEST WISHES!!! Sending good vibes your way!:bounce:

[joe9alt]

I'd say it's more in the spirit of movies like TRAINING DAY and COLLATERAL (with a bit more teeth) than it is NARC.

Right now I'm taking payday loans and $hit so I'd be fine selling it anywhere but the ultimate goal is definitely to sell the script...

...to the company most likely to make the best possible version of the movie while paying the most possible amount of money.

Thanks again, everybody.

[BurningWorld]

Take no prisoners, Joe.

[SkyPolynomial]

Good luck man!

And from Tacoma, 253 represent!

[joe9alt]

I live in Tacoma.

I'm from Philly.

Get it right. :cool:

[SkyPolynomial]

Nope, won't let you ruin this for me. I'm using you as a reminder that even Tac Town children can obtain all of their dreams and all that good stuff.

;)

[joe9alt]

I've certainly been used for far worse than that in the past so I'll let it slide. ;)

[Paradis]

Firstly - congrats Joe, can't hear enough of these success stories - no matter how small or big they are. We all need to be reminded of the tangible progress out there.

...where'd everyone catch wind of this? I'm guessing a tracking board? I really have to get on exploring those and making it a routine to stay plugged in (instead of shut-up in my writing room)

[joe9alt]

Firstly - congrats Joe, can't hear enough of these success stories...

Thanks but as Winston Wolfe says in Pulp Fiction...

Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet.

[CthulhuRises]

Congrats, Joe!

[UglyShirts]

I really hope this pans out, Joe. You're due some serious good-karma rewards for the one-two punch of the whole Bender/Heart Association thing, and if this winds up being the redemption window, bravo.

[Pendagger]

Thanks but as Winston Wolfe says in Pulp Fiction...

Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet.

Okay dude, I don't know you from Adam...but I'm now officially a fan.

[SpecMan13]

Always nice to see, J9!!

[sppeterson]

Congrats and good luck!

And I finally understand your username.

[DrumDog2112]

Good luck, Joe!

[briking]

Good luck, Joe. Nothing but positive thoughts heading your way.

[AJ_FIN]

Congrats. :)

[jtthieme]

I'm new to the boards but you seem like a solid guy, Joe. Congrats and good luck.

[dangerouscreenwriter]

A little late to the thread, but evidently you're up for a Parole hearing? Best of luck, Joe, our thoughts are with you! ;)

[ATB]

One of the worst dudes I know is a parole officer.

Great idea.

Sendin' some mojo yer way, Joe.

[lordmanji]

Hoping the best for you, Joe.

[mswriterj]

Adding more wishes for good luck. You've put good karma out there. It's coming back soon!

[merrymary]

Hope Paroled gets you payrolled!

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Good luck!

[kintnerboy]

Good Luck Joe!

I rented Straight Time recently and wondered why no one had updated this idea in a while. Good for you.

[joe9alt]

It's different than STRAIGHT TIME, although I do reference NO BEAST SO FIERCE in the script - it's a book the lead is reading in one of the scenes.

In STRAIGHT TIME, Hoffman struggled to readjust to society and had people pushing him back toward his criminal ways - he didn't have his parole officer forcing him to commit crimes.

But, yeah, love STRAIGHT TIME/NO BEAST SO FIERCE.

Definitely an inspiration.

[kintnerboy]

I know you have a different twist on it.

I just meant Hoffman's charachter was probably doomed from the beginning, but it just seemed to me that he was at least making an effort at the straight life until he ran into M. Emmit Walsh's sadistic parole officer. It's a great, underused bad guy role.

Collateral/Training Day are probably the two best thrillers of the past 10 years, so I hope yours gets made.

[jaytblankenfeld]

Good job and good luck Joe :)

[norcal365]

GOOD LUCK, JOE.

All appendages crossed for a sale and ending the pay-day loan servitude.

Go, Joe, Go.

[Twofingeredtypist]

Best of luck. Sounds like the sort of movie I love watching. MORE crime thrillers, the better, say I! :)

[night fugue]

What's the latest on this?

[joe9alt]

Still pushin' it up the mountain.

[Rantanplan]

Fingers crossed!

[Laura Reyna]

Oh hey, nice to hear about this. Sounds cool! Good luck, Joe! :D



PS I'm a fan of STRAIGHT TIME as well. Overlooked gem.

[MARK11]

Go get them Joey!!! Yeah Joey!!!

[Bob Smargiassi]

Still pushin' it up the mountain.

Good luck Joe, hope you close the deal brother.

Our scripts went out the same week in October, mine hasn't sold yet either.

What makes it worse are all the news stories declaring October as "the month the spec market came roaring back!"

Makes me feel like the fat kid at a Sadie Hawkins dance.

[SpecMan13]

Break a leg!

[Grandmaster]

Superb news! Another DDer kicking arse.

I'll never stop saying it: the success of others here inspires me.

[brubenow]

Fingers crossed, Joe.

[Orchard]

you got it, buddy!!