We already have our director, casting director, line producer, production lawyer and producers set, and are now in the process of adding other department heads, namely the Director of Photography, the Production Designer, and the Editor.
This email was sent from one of the people we approached to occupy one of those positions on the movie. He is an A-List person in his field, and though I am sad we can't get him, I was pretty happy to see what he said to the director about the script.
To me, this is the sort of praise I really relish--this is a guy who doesn't know me or care about me, who hasn't read my book, writing about me to someone else. And not only that, he has read thousands of scripts and worked on some of the biggest movies of the past twenty years. More often then not, the below-the-line people can tell you if a movie will be a success with way more accuracy than the people paid to do it.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: [A-List below-the-line department head]
To: [The Director]
Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Subject: Hey ManI know your producer called Deb on Friday and was gracious enough to give me until Monday, but Friday night one of the jobs that had talked to me last month about their project pulled the trigger and I'm afraid I'll have to do it. It's a project with [Huge A-List actor] and [big director] who I've worked with before. Let me assure you this decision has nothing to do with money or any of that nonsense, I would have done it for what ever you had to work with you again, it's really just timing.
I can't tell you how torn I was because not only was I really looking forward to not only working with you again, but I think your movie is really funny and quite frankly gonna make a shit load of money. I got the same feeling when I read "Wedding Crashers" which I had to turn down as it was happening during [another movie he did].
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