richard.

marcus.

so what's up? you doing ok?

you want to know if i'm getting any?

no i mean in the business. i read your screenplay. "screwed on" was it? i thought it was incredible. it was more than incredible actually, it was good. the critics loved it. especially the scene with the baby girl. i heard you wrote a sequel.

"screw off".

what?

"screw off". that's the name.

i see. to be honest, it seems like it went under without a ripple. i didn't even get a chance to look at it.

yeah, the producers of "Screw On" kept insisting i write another, considering the success of the first one. i was all against it actually, but i figured if i came up with a good story they would buy it.

and of course the pay was good.

yeah the pay was good. for the week or so when it was actually in my bank account.

so what happened?

well, it bombed. the mainstream producers thought it was boring, and the arthouse potheads got daunted by the size of it.

shows how much they know.

one firm took us up on it though. it didn't open well and they yanked the cord after two weeks or so. honestly it wasn't that good anyway.

what a screw up.

what?

i said, quote "what a screw up" unquote.

i'll drink to that.

how's james?

not very happy nowadays. hard to be after realising you spent quarter of a million on a lemon.

maybe you could write another sequel. "Screw Up". a satire or something. a costumed villain builds a projector to emit radio waves that make people befuddled and unable to tell a good movie from a bad one.

laughs.

no one wants to film anything from a writer who's last screenplay couldn't make two thousand at the box office.

"screwed on" was amazing. doesn't that count for something?

no.