Back in the groove

Saturday, May 17, 2008 | 9:51 PM

Stu and I met with our new writing consultant, Ron Geiger today. It was a very productive meeting and I think we may have broken into a whole new way to approach the series. Ron came at the series from a slightly different way and I have to say that it mixes very well with what Stu and I wanted to accomplish with the story. At the end of the meeting Stu went back to writing and I went home to look at what we have of the scripts that might survive and let me start planning...

I have to say that a lot of things are up for grabs but there are a few scenes that I feel strongly will stay pretty close to what we have now and that will let me start some of my process in getting together a shooting plan.

Finally I think we have found our last location today, a 45 foot by 45 foot plot of land that we will be transforming for our own purposes. I still can't believe that it was an empty plot of land that was the most difficult to find in LA. If we had been in Northern California it would have been no problem but down here it seems to be as precious as gold...

Fortunately, I think we have hit a little mother load! I will start to do my Walter Huston "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" dance... look at me go!