Dan stayed up last night, pinging me with three texts of further ideas he's had - and one just painfully awful pun. At least two of them are excellent, incorporated in immediately.
By the end of the day, I had an email from him with a great twist on the proto-plot I'd offered up and some more details and moments, waiting to be combined in.
These early stages are where our approaches most differ: left to myself, it seems I create a solid, uninspired, somewhat dry, full first drafts that move no-one but offer potential qualities. Dan then has to fulfill the role of my script editor known as "throwing rocks at it".
By involving him from the start and trying to squash my ego down to use the best of what we both some up with, we should end up with a quality film script that he genuinely wants to direct.
We've already agreed a ego-less process from reviewing the final draft, so we won't come to blows but I think I need to get a sealed in blood promise from him that he won't agree to do it unless the material ends up good enough.
I want to hand him 80 pages that even if he'd never met me, he'd want to make.
