I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

It’s pilot season in Hollywood, and so far I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell has proven to be a good luck charm for all three male leads:
-Geoff Stults landed the lead in “Happy Town,” a series that I have heard ABC is very excited about and will probably pick up.
-Jesse Bradford has landed a main role in “The Eastmans,” a pilot on CBS about a family of doctors.
-Matt Czuchry was cast for “The Good Wife,” where he’ll play a first year associate in a CBS pilot about a politician’s wife who gets a job at a law firm.
I’m totally kidding about the title of this blog post; I seriously doubt the movie had anything to do with them landing these parts. They are each phenomenal actors, and though I believe this movie will be what makes them into household name stars, they would have gotten there eventually on their own. It’s only a matter of time for each of them and our movie just happened to be first.
That is actually one of the things I am most excited about as this movie goes forward–not just the success that I will have and the movie will have, but how this success will affect other people, people who believed in me when very few others did and put their time and effort into this project.
Nils is the most obvious one; this dude has been on the project from basically day one and has dedicated his life to it. No one has put more on the line or more of their soul into this except for me. Not to mention his wife Jen was the first one to put money into the movie. Max helped us when no one would take a meeting with us, Aaron gave us his expertise when other people dismissed us, Bob signed on to direct before we were financed, Sean, Richard and Ted put up millions of dollars, and Matt, Jesse and Geoff skipped other bigger projects and gave us three months of their lives because they believed so deeply in us and our vision.
I know most of what I talk about on this blog focuses on me–such is life as a narcissist. But I hope I don’t give the impression that the other people don’t matter. I want this thing to succeed for all the obvious reasons–so I can buy a G5, for instance–but also because I really want all of these people who believed in me and sacrificed for this project to get everything they deserve. They took a risk and bet on two completely unknown producer/writers who had a funny script and a unique vision, and nothing will make me happier than to have them succeed right alongside me.
After all, success shared is the sweetest kind.
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