You all now know the ebook of "A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End" has been optioned. The new wrinkle is that I have been asked to adapt it into a television pilot. Oy vey! Wasn't it supposed to be a movie?
Who cares. I was jazzed to do it and lo and behold I got so stoked that I wrote a whole season of 13 damn episodes! I didn't want to leave any room for error or a shot at seeing these few years of losing my way being taken from me and interpreted into something--tawdry! Face it folks--I want to make it tawdry on my own accord and I did 13 sumptuously bitchy episodes suggesting to include some of the best 70s disco dance music and American popular standards of the 20th century. Remember Sarah Vaughn, Rosemary Clooney, Mel Torme, Duke Ellington? Along with today's artists, like Rasaan Patterson (the next coming of Prince) singing "Feels Good" and Chrisette Michele singing "If I Had My Way". What makes this all come together for me, is that it is reminiscent of the NYC Bar Scene of the 80s and 90s. You'd change clothes with your best friends (translation, BFF) at an after hours bar and go right to work in the city.
Agents and Managers are tricky creatures. You start with a novel and you go to a screenplay and then a TV series. All they want you to do is write! I love 'em because they kick my tookus to create.
I've been informed that my reps are feverishly working on raising funds to make a trailer or sizzle reel, I'm told, for the pilot to bring to network and cable. I'll work a night job to get this accomplished.
Our creative team needs the"Dos Equis" of Black Women. The universal search is on for an average to tall Black chanteuse 40s to 50s who can sing like, Sarah Vaughn, Dianne Reeves, or Anita Baker and dance like, Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, Shirley MacLaine and Ann Reinking. Perhaps, Valarie Pettiford a little more subdued? Vanessa Williams with scarier eyes. The series is built around Catalina and a white guy in his 40s who's fit like a former professional tennis player and thinks he's God's gift to women.
I will post more casting suggesting as I firm up the details. Check back and send your demo .mov files, links, pictures and resumes if you want to help empower the pitching of the pilot for "The Unobtainables". I want the casting to be crazy tight to my vision. Also, we will need generous souls to volunteer the use of their spaces--i.e. intimate nightclub, mansion, tennis facility, etc. We will need a choreographer and club dancers and you my friends pretty much can figure out by now what else we might need.
Later...
Paisley
http://www.paisleyparksbooks.com/
Thursday, July 21, 2011
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