What happened to The Ark's screenplay?

[Dennis Denuto]

He said on Strictly Stalking that there's moving going around on that. Where is it?

 

[FranksWirecutters]

He said on Strictly Stalking that there's moving going around on that. Where is it?

You will see it in prison, which you will enjoy.

 

[Cyberatorquer]

He said on Strictly Stalking that there's moving going around on that. Where is it?

On a number of LA Landfills

 

[DiarrheaDick]

Lol, you thought that was real?

 

[Turk February]

Lol, you thought that was real?

don't break immersion, yo, some of us are still enjoying the Pat Tomlinson ARG

 

[LockedHDD__Pot]

You will see it in prison, which you will enjoy.

it's a peculiar wish for his 'atalkers', I would hope my enemies cease enjoyment but maybe that's just me.

 

[BudDickman]

I don't know anything about the movie or publishing industries, but with how many loser writers there are like Pat who are desperate to become famous, it's probably no big deal for studios to snap up the film rights for books for basically nothing. I think he said that the rights were "optioned", which sounds like the studio just locked in the price for the rights based on it's current "who gives a fuck" status, without actually paying for the rights yet, and if the book suddenly became enormously popular, Pat can't negotiate better terms.

 

[Turk February]

I don't know anything about the movie or publishing industries, but with how many loser writers there are like Pat who are desperate to become famous, it's probably no big deal for studios to snap up the film rights for books for basically nothing. I think he said that the rights were "optioned", which sounds like the studio just locked in the price for the rights based on it's current "who gives a fuck" status, without actually paying for the rights yet, and if the book suddenly became enormously popular, Pat can't negotiate better terms.

If Pat was smart, he'd write up a treatment based on his life story and sell it to Chiller

edit: just learned Chiller no longer exists, but that's completely appropriate

 

[Cygnus Nana X-1]

If Pat was smart, he'd write up a treatment based on his life story and sell it to Chiller

edit: just learned Chiller no longer exists, but that's completely appropriate

Still, his story would be marketable on most platforms.

 

[Butterknife]

Casting it as we speak. Dice is playing Noah.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

Don’t forget, he’s working with a company “bigger than Netflix” for it yet never said anything more on who is bigger than Netflix.

 

[MonsterSteve]

I don't know anything about the movie or publishing industries, but with how many loser writers there are like Pat who are desperate to become famous, it's probably no big deal for studios to snap up the film rights for books for basically nothing. I think he said that the rights were "optioned", which sounds like the studio just locked in the price for the rights based on it's current "who gives a fuck" status, without actually paying for the rights yet, and if the book suddenly became enormously popular, Pat can't negotiate better terms.

I remember reading something from Fats about how he only became a writer to become famous. He has no passion to write or become at better writer. It's why his writing fucking sucks. Now he's trying to become Hollywood famous before he even became author famous. It's why he counts words and thinks more words = better. Fat fucking dumb Irish idiot.

 

[TomFromNawlins]

Wasn’t he working on a Project Azorian screenplay too? The one where the grizzled Soviet Captain reprimanded careless subordinates with snarky, teen-girl dialogue.

 

[Safka's Enticer]

Benson is a faggot pedophile who couldn't resist raping a Chinese child prostitute who speaks Engrish for some reason even though they live in a multinational generational space ship

 

[TorqueWheeler]

I don't know anything about the movie or publishing industries, but with how many loser writers there are like Pat who are desperate to become famous, it's probably no big deal for studios to snap up the film rights for books for basically nothing. I think he said that the rights were "optioned", which sounds like the studio just locked in the price for the rights based on it's current "who gives a fuck" status, without actually paying for the rights yet, and if the book suddenly became enormously popular, Pat can't negotiate better terms.

It's not even that. Basically anyone can option a screenplay. You can do it (yes, you!) if Pat agrees to it. You can offer him a buck for it and if he agrees then it's yours to sell for however long you agreed. Congrats, you're a producer. Now, you have to find someone who can actually get a movie made and is interested in picking this trash up. That's where the problems begin. Thousands of screenplays come through here. I see almost none of them. The ones that I do (and aren't written by someone whose name you know) only get here because the writer has an agent with the ability to get it on the pile and someone else then thought there might be something worth looking at.

Obviously, there are plenty of smaller places to shop a screenplay (still gonna need that agency though) but the trouble with all of Pat's stuff is it would require a mega budget and, in turn, a massive name who can be entrusted with that kind of investment to direct it and for a first time screenwriter who has never had anything made before, based on a book that nobody has read, that simply isn't gonna happen. The best Pat could hope for would leave The Ark looking like this.

If he was even remotely smart he would write a low-budget horror flick or even a comedy (it pays the bills, child!)

 

[JoeCumiawearsDIAPERS]

It's not even that. Basically anyone can option a screenplay. You can do it (yes, you!) if Pat agrees to it. You can offer him a buck for it and if he agrees then it's yours to sell for however long you agreed. Congrats, you're a producer. Now, you have to find someone who can actually get a movie made and is interested in picking this trash up. That's where the problems begin. Thousands of screenplays come through here. I see almost none of them. The ones that I do (and aren't written by someone whose name you know) only get here because the writer has an agent with the ability to get it on the pile and someone else then thought there might be something worth looking at.

Obviously, there are plenty of smaller places to shop a screenplay (still gonna need that agency though) but the trouble with all of Pat's stuff is it would require a mega budget and, in turn, a massive name who can be entrusted with that kind of investment to direct it and for a first time screenwriter who has never had anything made before, based on a book that nobody has read, that simply isn't gonna happen. The best Pat could hope for would leave The Ark looking like this.

If he was even remotely smart he would write a low-budget horror flick or even a comedy (it pays the bills, child!)

I bet a compilation script of his court appearances would get optioned faster than anything he’s ever actually published.

 

[SFWA liaison]

These things take time, child.

 

[John Wayne Gacy]

I remember reading something from Fats about how he only became a writer to become famous. He has no passion to write or become at better writer. It's why his writing fucking sucks. Now he's trying to become Hollywood famous before he even became author famous. It's why he counts words and thinks more words = better. Fat fucking dumb Irish idiot.

"If you're only reason to write is for money or fame, you're never going make it."
-Ray Bradbury, one of Sci-fi's most prolific and influential authors.

 

[Phish]

Samuel Delaney is my inspiration, child. Ever read Hogg??

 

[fricklefrackle]

He said on Strictly Stalking that there's moving going around on that. Where is it?

A lie. Like everything else in his his fat, fucking life.