11-13-2014, 09:45 AM
John has always been very supportive of KFTC. We first met when he cold called me about FK. He started telling me who he was and that he'd written the screenplay (of course, I had been following the progress of that project since its inception, but didn't really pay much attention to the screenwriter). I remember speaking to him with my usual guardedness as we get so many martialooneys calling and at that point, I didn't know him from Adam. But I verified his claims quickly and we began a long phone correspondence which ended in his writing that cover story. We met face2face at the screener which was big in SF (that's when I also first met Crystal Liu and Collin Chou). We've kept up a correspondence ever since.
With this project, John helped me secure advertising from Netflix. We were also working on advertising with Simon&Shuster for this book, but that fell through, at which point John offered to pay for it out of pocket. But I couldn't let him do that as he had already done a lot for us in working with Netflix. And I'm hoping we'll be doing more for CTHD2. John is a guy who gets calls from Harvey Weinstein. srsly now, why would we make the movie ourselves then?
With this project, John helped me secure advertising from Netflix. We were also working on advertising with Simon&Shuster for this book, but that fell through, at which point John offered to pay for it out of pocket. But I couldn't let him do that as he had already done a lot for us in working with Netflix. And I'm hoping we'll be doing more for CTHD2. John is a guy who gets calls from Harvey Weinstein. srsly now, why would we make the movie ourselves then?
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