You’re kidding, right?
In TBOAPS — which in this case would mean that immediately after I turn the script in, everybody raves, the production entity or their associated studio instantly buys an option to produce the first novel, the studio greenlights the production on the basis of the script in hand, and pre-production starts immediately — then, wildly optimistically, early 2009. But this would never happen. Late 2009, a Christmas release perhaps, would be more realistic. And if there’s a delay of any kind associated with any of these stages, then later still. 2010 possibly. 2011. Other possible causes of delay: extensive rewrites, disagreements with the producers, problems finding a director, disagreements with the director, California falling off into the ocean, Earth being hit by a giant meteor, etc etc. Anyway, it’s much too soon to tell. It’ll all be in the press release in Variety, some day. (Some day this year, I much hope.
