danny_g

Something kind of neat happened on Saturday, which I've decided to share for lack of something else to put here.

I've been chatting, off and on, with the author of The Three Musketeers (Reserve your tickets now! Only eight shows left!) about what he might write next. Our styles turn out to be quite different: he likes a good epic, and works well in period speech, while my mastery of dialog is better suited to modern speech and I've thus far shied away from anything that might be called epic.

So we're backstage during intermission, and for whatever reason we've started exchanging our favourite Doc Holiday lines from the movie Tombstone. Suddenly he pauses and says "I should write a gunfighter epic."

"YES!" I declare, for in that moment I know it to be true. There are moments of inspiration, when you see the project as a whole before you've even begun it... the idea has hit you, and you know, you know it's great one. I was getting an inspirational buzz off this moment, and I wasn't even gonna write the thing.

I hope that script happens. Because without knowing plot, characters, or anything about it (and how could I? None of that information exists yet) I already want to be involved.

You might hear rumours that by the end of the night the buzz had faded and I had declared my hatred for all who walked the Earth. Think not on these rumours. Even if such a thing had happened, it's probably not important.

"When you search for something, don't find it. Because when you find it, it has rabies."
-Jason Panopolis