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Why is Blake Griffin gassing up his Tesla?

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

And to think this thread started talking about a movie that nobody saw (it's on HBOGo if anyone is interested)

But fingers crossed, TC! Feel free to use this thread as your personal vision board!

Margot is a 10.

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And she is only 25!

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so I just told my wife the synopsis of this:
- dude on texags is probably going to produce a movie w a guy that looks like jack dawson.
- one of the chicks from Pan Am is high likely to star in it

I made a joke about having thought I had had a good day and she responded w: WTF. and I said: real estate is cool and all, but now it feels a little boring.

Ha, except the words "probably" and "highly likely" are being VERY optimistic. Yes, Leo's vice president really wants to do something with us. We all really hit it off, and he wants to take the Rolling Stones article/project to Paramount. Paramount is looking for their next "Big Short" and the VP thinks this could be it. But the odds of Paramount committing are obviously somewhat slim. But with Leo producing, and the high-profile author committed to write, it might be a sexy enough package. Land Robbie, and we're obviously gold. But the point is, we still have to convince both Paramount AND Robbie, neither of which we've started discussions with. The plan as of now is to pitch Paramount in July, when our writer is in town, so we'll see. And again, I don't know yet if we'll go after Robbie before or after that point.

And just to be clear, in posts like the one above, I'm sometimes purposefully vague because I do get a bit paranoid about Google hits, so I try not to use specific names when I can. It's fine that I'm talking about this stuff in broad terms, and I enjoy keeping you guys updated, but at the same time if some of these exec types saw a thread like this - or I linked to the actual article / discussed details of the project - as astronomically low as the chances may be of discovery, with all the other random talk in this thread, I'd like to keep these posts as undiscoverable as possible. Again, it's totally fine overall, but as things like this start to heat up and develop, I may have to limit what I discuss here and there going forward.

Awesome news TC! Even if this doesn't pan out it's undoubtedly a huge win with the leads and relationships you've built.

If it does pan out, just plan for a nude scene as hard as you can... it doesn't even have to be a nude for the camera scene, just one where there's implied nudity where she's nude on set.

Any more hints on what article you are speaking of (sorry if you mentioned it earlier in the thread)?

And how did you get in touch with and end up pitching it to your future co-producer?

sorry if I blew your cover - I went ahead and cleaned it up. don't want to jinx it or anything.

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Oh, no worries at all. I was referring mainly to my own post. And I'm not too worried about using major movie star's names or anything like that, though sometimes it's just second nature to sometimes not be super specific in that regard.

Will try to explain it as concisely as I can...

One of our four partners got to know the Leo VP pretty well a couple years ago through a producer friend he was working with before our company was formed. Then this past October we somehow charmed the writer of this article and made it among the finalist to bid for the screen rights. It was us, Plan B (Brad Pitt's company), and Smokehouse (George Clooney's company) vying for it. The writer liked our take the most, but we didn't have a big name behind us, so we reached out to Leo's company/their VP through the relationship our partner had. The VP fell in love the article's potential, officially partnered with us, and soon after it was down to just us and Clooney. Mind you, this was like 9 months after our company had been formed. We never in a million years expected to be in the running for something like this so soon, but there we were, going toe-to-toe with Clooney, with Leo somehow backing us. It was crazy. In the end, though, Clooney was able to offer more money, and he got it. There's a whole other crazy angle that I can't get into here, but if not for some screw up on behalf of the agent, we actually would have got it with the money we had, because, again, the author was rooting for us because he liked our take so much.

Anyway, it sucked to lose out, but that whole ordeal earned us a bit of respect among some of the major players, including Leo's guy. He liked our taste and wanted to try to find a way to work on something else together in the future. We landed the rights to this other article a month or so later I think, finally met the VP for drinks in person a few weeks ago, and like I said, all just really hit it off. Now he's super interested in this new project we have. We're currently putting together a big pitch deck, and again, will hopefully pitch to Paramount in July when the author's in town.

As for the article itself, I guess it can't hurt to post, just please don't discuss it a ton here in the thread if you don't mind. Also, know that the article is only a starting point. We're not doing a straight adaptation. It's more of a jumping off point, and, among other things, it would center around a made-up female lead who would be investigating this whole ordeal. The main subject in the article would be the the other lead, who we're hoping will be played by a certain other Wolf of Wall Street co-star. Some might say he's Superbad...

Interesting story. And the Winkelvi are involved, so I'm sure that guarantees another TC story about Armie Hammer

Ha, don't think I haven't thought about asking him to reprise that cameo. That said, I have no idea how integral they'll be to the ultimate version of the story, if at all.

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Think of the $hared univer$e you could develop!

Ha, anything I can do to even be tangentially connected to David Fincher in some way, shape, or form would be a dream come true.

I think you might evem be able to get close to Danny Boyle, since, and I might be misremembering, but I believe Steve Jobs takes place in the same universe as The Social Network.

Haha I've been out of pocket traveling the last 4 days. This is such a great thread to read in the hotel with a glass of whiskey.

Great work. Can't wait till you introduce me to her, TC! I'll take it from there.

At LAX, headed to Dallas, and Aubrey Plaza is at the gate next to mine, headed to New York...

I know something super original to say to her that she's probably never heard before.

Go up to her and say "I'm picking my flight. I'm not picking my flight. I'm picking my---wait I missed my flight"

She's struck me as someone who's likely way hotter in person than on screen. True?

Definitely cute, but super normal-looking in person. Not in a bad way, but she doesn't really stand out in a crowd. Not a single person recognized or noticed her that I could tell.

Love Dunst! And now she is dating Jesse Plemons. No offense to Plemons, but that gives us all a chance!