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Wednesday

Breaking the Ice #41 - Who Was That Masked Man?

New strip is up and with it, a new character is introduced. I've been wanting to create a character that was a pro wrestler because I though the visual of someone walking around with that mask on all the time was a good one. Not to mention, I had written a screenplay about a pro wrestler called 60 Minute Broadway that was being adapted into a comic at one time. I may end up trying to do that myself at some point or just use some story points and gags from there with this new character. Either way, I'm moving the story along, introducing a new character and getting a chance to use one of my favorite jokes. All in one strip! What the hell more do you want from me, people?!?!

Labels: 60 minute broadway, web comic

Monday

Ouch

The following story was in Variety today:

Summit Intl. will handle international rights to Darren Aronofsky's indie drama "The Wrestler," starring Nicolas Cage.
Story centers on a 1980s-era wrestling star, who scrapes by doing small-time matches in New Jersey's backwaters.

Aronofsky's directing and producing. Cage, Norm Golightly's Saturn Films and Scott Franklin are also producing. Screenplay was written by Robert Siegel and is being financed by Winchester Capital Partners, the film finance company created by Jean-Luc De Fanti and Jeff Sagansky.

Summit will begin pre-sales at the upcoming American Film Market. The banner also handled Aronofsky's "Pi" and "Requiem for a Dream."

CAA, which reps Cage and Aronofsky, packaged the deal and is helping to sell the pic.

If that plotline sounds familiar it's because it's remarkably similar to a screenplay I wrote and was in the process of turning into a comic book mini-series called 60 Minute Broadway.. My script made it's way around to some studios and production companies and you can read about those trials and tribulations here if you feel like checking it out.In no way do I think for even a second that the idea was "stolen" from me. It just sucks that it wasn't my script that got picked up.

Labels: 60 minute broadway