third coast.. said:

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Whatever happened here?

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MeToo.

Basically, this.

Before that, though, after this announcement, every studio in town wanted to hear the pitch, and my business partners + Harvey pitched it everywhere. Except that Harvey wasn't used to how TV operates and basically found a way to *****nearly every pitch. My buddies said he'd ramble forever, and when he wasn't physically there for a pitch, would somehow *****it up even when calling in. One time he called in with his dogs barking nonstop in the background, to the point where an exec finally had to say something. Another time even the director, who was there for the bigger pitches, straight up walked out in the middle of a pitch because of Harvey. My buddies said it was basically like witnessing a weeks-long car crash.

Still, after all that, Apple wanted to make it their flagship show and a foreign network offered like $2M an episode for international markets. Harvey never engaged Apple again and turned down the foreign offer. He didn't like the idea of giving up the necessary he control he'd have to give up for TV.

So, finally, after the project had cooled and Harvey had botched the whole thing, he went back to wanting to make it a movie, which had been his original goal/passion for like 15 years. So he hired my business partners to do just that. A few months later they delivered the movie version and Harvey was over the moon. His execs said they hadn't seen him that fired up for a project in a long time. My buddies did one more quick pass based on some minor notes, Harvey told then he could not be more happy with the finished product, said this was his dream finally realized after 15 years, and that the script was going out to a couple of big-name directors the very next week.

My friends/business partners had finally made it. After all the sh*t they had been through with the show version, this felt like a massive win for both the project and obviously their careers.

This was early in the first week of October 2017.

That Thursday, The New York Times article hit, #MeToo began, and the rest is history.

No, the entire Hollywood world *didn't* know. They knew he was an assh*le because... he's an assh*le. But so are so many other successful people in this industry. It's par for the course. Only a relatively small group - Harvey's victims included - knew he was as bad as we eventually learned he was. Were there people who turned a blind eye? Absolutely. But the victims themselves have made it abundantly clear why they didn't speak up sooner, and why this whole situation was WAY more complex than you might want it to be. Either way, don't resurrect this thread from your high horse and then insinuate that my friends might be part of the problem. Because they're the last thing from it.

I appreciate that. This feels like a big, big year. We've got a lot of irons in the fire - with some big names attached - and are super close to finally seeing a few them hopefully pay off.

Y'all sure riled up old sport!

Not sure why third coast felt the need to dig up an old thread like this, only to just act like a jerk. Bit stalker-ish.