Green.
Did I mention we were Greenlit?
Thank you. Thank you.
Isn’t it awesome how “Green Light”, as in, “we now have the go ahead to give you a bunch of money so you can go make your movie” has become a verb? And that this verb can now be used in past tense?
Well, after literally 11 months of haggling, preparing documents, presentations, numbers and proposals, after countless meetings and conference calls, after basically a year of patience and WAITING, we finally got that very anticipated call:
“We’re good to go. The discussions have been positive and we are excited to make this movie with you.”
There’s hardly any sweeter music my ears can hear than those words.
And how do you come to that spot? Specially with a studio? With perseverance. With patience. Without pushing. Keeping our director somehow (miraculously) happy. It’s not easy and one has to be a resourceful scrapper. Someone who either has deep pockets (not our case necessarily) or who has the passion and commitment to stay for the long haul.
On a documentary project we’re driven by a slightly deeper sense of “the right thing to do” as well. You see, we’re not just whorring ourselves to the almighty greenback on that one. I feel strongly we should focus on more documentary content moving forward in our company. It gives purpose to the wait and makes our patience so much more worthwhile.
So as we await resolution with our other fiction film, as our co-producers on that film play around pretending to be big shots and wait for people to get back to them, as we wait for the new actor we have gone to to come back to us with a response on the script (hint hint, the man was the lead in a legendary worldwide monster of a TV show) and yadda yadda yadda, we are already miles ahead on what was our “backup” project: our documentary. A studio film that we are very happy to be making.
So far, we just got “greenlit”.
Now, we must push towards finding our team on that.
And it couldn’t come soon enough.
