An update on Project Liz

Gah! Who's behind on the times? That would be me. But it's not like I've been lazing about, doing nothing! No sir! Been writing lots for Daily Reel, and my latest Bookslut column also just went up. LizWriting, all over the web! Dig it!

What else to report? Well, the Canadians are totally for sure buying "Hand Of God" -- I received the contract and their copy-edits this week, which were so polite. No idea when it will be on Alberta newstands, but I'm still very psyched. Aimee and I are damn close to finishing a readable-by-others draft of our Office spec, which is exciting as can be, because it means that we finally have the necessary samples to start showing around to agents and managers. This is actually pretty impressive, when you realize that Aimee and I have only been writing together for about a year, and in that time have written many drafts of four different scripts. Go team!

Too Little Too Late news: we have money! Full financing is being provided by a fine little commercial production company that I shan't mention by name. We are still incredibly on the cheap, but now the things that need purchasing can actually be purchased! There is still an absolute ton of work to do before shooting (which is now scheduled for the first two weekends in March). But it is still exciting!

Missed news: we have a new editor! This is not very exciting, I suppose, but the sheer fact that there is any news about Missed should be good enough for you.

Other news: It's Valentine's Day! It's Eric's birthday! It's Wednesday! It's the day I read about this!

So. A good day, I think. Punch someone you love tonight! I know I will.

Labels: in which our heroine, projects:missed, projects:too little too late, projects:writing

posted by Liz  # 5:41 PM 5 Comments

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Planet doomed, film at 11.

You know, I'd be a lot happier about Too Little Too Late's subject matter being in the news all the time if it weren't directly related to our civilization's eminent demise.

Finally saw An Inconvenient Truth last weekend, which was overall an interesting piece of work, telling me a few different things I hadn't known and reminding me of all the things I'd tried to forget. However, I had real issues with the lack of segues between the lecture sections and "Al Gore: Man Behind the Macintosh Powerbook"; while some of the personal stories were fantastic, the political angle (most specifically, the digs at Bush) felt really out of step and almost petty. Especially since I wasn't expecting a great deal of politics -- the advertising puts this movie in the context of nonpartisan edcuation, which is then totally betrayed by the content. It felt like a campaign ad for Al Gore. That's not a way to reach closed minds.

I'm not saying that you can separate the politics from this issue; I just know that this issue is important enough to warrent crossing party lines. Global warming, at its core, is a human issue. Has An Inconvenient Truth changed as many minds as it needs to change? Or, because of its political bias, just convinced liberals of things we already sort of knew?

It's still an important piece of work, though, a great compilation of all the mounting evidence. Don't get me wrong about that. Am I rooting for Al Gore to be the second man to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize? (Three non-Googled guesses as to who was the first!) Sure. He's a cool dude. Even without the beard.

Labels: moving pictures, not quite like the west wing, projects:too little too late

posted by Liz  # 3:03 PM 0 Comments

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Project-in-Progress: TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

Dad emailed me last week, the kind man, to tell me about all the broken links on this site that I should look into fixing at some point; he made special note of the link on the Projects page, to information about the two different shorts I'm currently working on.

"Oh, the links are fine," I replied, "there's just nothing for them to link to yet."

Fixing that now, though, since I just spent a ridiculous amount of time formatting the pitch pages for TOO LITTLE TOO LATE, the short film I'm producing for Maya K. to direct. One family in the post-apocalypse, enjoying Thanksgiving dinner on a storm-soaked beach. The idea came from a discussion regarding what would actually happen if you survived the end of the world with your family -- after all, in the worst of circumstances, you'd of course want to be with the ones you love. But at some point, you'd start missing the ones you like, as well.

We've been working on the script for the past few months, and this newest draft is easily the best -- which is good news, since we're aiming to shoot in three weeks. Yeah. Casting is pretty much wrapped up, and it went surprisingly well given that we had six roles to fill. Good talent pool in LA, quelle suprise. Now, it's just a matter of permits and money and crewing up. Fun times. I'll post updates as they come. All the fun stories that are there to be told. Right now, though, bed.

Labels: projects:too little too late

posted by Liz  # 4:03 AM 2 Comments

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