TV Guide Magazine: Theres buzz about movie possibilities. Whats up with that?
Michael Easton: This month I’m taking meetings about the books with various Hollywood-type people, some producers and a couple of production companies. We’re talking about a way to maybe condense all three books into one screenplay. Of course, I’ve been taking meetings since the first book where [producers] were like, “Where’s the tent pole? If we do a movie of this book, where’s the second movie?” And then they’d start talking about bringing in another writer to prepare the second script and it made me nervous. One of the nice things about having a day job is that you don’t have to pimp yourself. [Laughs] I’m already pimping myself between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.! So I can afford to be patient, and I think that’s thrown a few people off. Why is he not jumping at this deal? They got super-suspicious of me. TV Guide Magazine: How did you hook up with Straub? Michael Easton: Besides meeting my wife, meeting Peter was the greatest encounter of my life. It turns out he’s a big OLTL
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