Update on 'Die in a Gunfight'

[ehs_wildcats]

'Die in a Gunfight' has taken another step forward per Deadline Hollywood/NY which posted:

Media Rights Capital is negotiating to acquire Die in a Gunfight
This probably means that 'The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman' is off the table for Zac. In fact, that project was actually removed from his SS/BL I think about a week or so ago (the

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[zacefronfan26]

So does mean that this will be his next Movie to Film.

[ehs_wildcats]

It might be but that is hard to tell. We will have to wait and see I guess.

[jeezbee]

Yeah, like you I expected only one of the two scripts, Charlie Countryman or Die in a Gunfight to go forward. They are sort of too similar for both to happen.

And IA, I'm a bit sad because the Charlie Countryman script was better and I liked the producers behind that project a lot too (although Mark Gordon is also a good producer

[jeezbee]

I'm almost sure that it's been rewritten by now. The time delay in MRC picking up the rights would surely support that idea. The question is just how it turned out.

I'd bet the writers & producers read the review and all comments on SS and while I don't think you should necessarily listening to internet commenters, when everyone points out the same thing, you sure at least take into consideration what's been said.

Perhaps we're lucky and the rewrite pops up. I sure would love to read it.

[ehs_wildcats]

OMG I KNOW. The sci-fi stuff... like I think I get what they were trying to do but it was so needless. That and making the tutor the same dude who invented this technology. WTF is that? How does that make sense? He doesn't need to be the tutor at all... just be the inventor and her dad's friend. And reduce the sci-fi stuff to something modern and topical... like make him the inventor of pharmaceutical product that fucks everyone up. It gives you an opportunity to comment on something socially relevant

[jeezbee]

This is just a crazy coincidence but Carson made a comment in yesterday's completely unrelated review of a horror script which I found so oddly fitting here:

Young writers tend to be full of ideas, but don’t yet know how to form those ideas into a compelling narrative (it takes time!). I think they’re capable of doing this, of course, but when you’re a young writer, you’re not really interested in narrative. You care about the eye candy, the great scenes, the flashy dialogue, the big concepts, the shit people will be talking about when they leave the theater. This is why you’ll read a great scene in a young writer’s script, then the next five scenes are complete disasters.

It's like he had just read the early draft of Die in a Gunfight... many symptoms described here apply to it. A lot of potential but the plot is lacking (or was at least in the first version).

[zacefronfan26]

This Movie sounds Interesting