Hey all
I have been asked to write a movie for a production company and as always the contract has been taking forever. The lawyers on their end finally produced a draft of the agreement last week after 1.5 months.
From my end I saw the period in which the contract was being prepared as research time for the project, since it's super research heavy.
I always thought that the clock starts ticking only when I sign the deal and money hits my account.
However the company has been "checking in-, asking "how it's going- both by phone and email. Of course at face value it's courtesy calls/emails but the subtext is very obviously "are you writing-?!
It's kind of making me anxious because I'm working for free right now and operating in good faith - and yet I'm still getting harassed. I am about to outline the story and I felt like I was doing them a solid by working on it during this legal downtime and instead it almost feels like they expect a draft basically upon commencement
Any thoughts on how to deal with this without already ruining the relationship ??
I have been asked to write a movie for a production company and as always the contract has been taking forever. The lawyers on their end finally produced a draft of the agreement last week after 1.5 months.
From my end I saw the period in which the contract was being prepared as research time for the project, since it's super research heavy.
I always thought that the clock starts ticking only when I sign the deal and money hits my account.
However the company has been "checking in-, asking "how it's going- both by phone and email. Of course at face value it's courtesy calls/emails but the subtext is very obviously "are you writing-?!
It's kind of making me anxious because I'm working for free right now and operating in good faith - and yet I'm still getting harassed. I am about to outline the story and I felt like I was doing them a solid by working on it during this legal downtime and instead it almost feels like they expect a draft basically upon commencement
Any thoughts on how to deal with this without already ruining the relationship ??
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