Conversations With Ken

K: "Hey, man."
G: "What's up?"
K: "What did you do wrong in a previous life?"
G: "eh?"
K: "Seriously, man, you're cursed."
G: "Why?"
K: "Got a reply from --. He won't be available til late June."
G: "Are you serious?"
K: "Unfortunately. You realize that we can't have that downtime."
G: "Ah crap."
K: (laughing) "If you think you have continuity problems now..."
G: "So what's next?"
K: "I sit on this project, or it goes into turnaround. Simple as that."

Note: "turnaround" is basically the kiss of death for anything in production. It means that a project (due to unforseen circumstances) will be shuffled around and given a low priority.

G: "Shit."
K: "Yes. Shit. Definitely shit. You realize I don't have much choice. I have to finish up the other series."
G: "Of course. I totally understand."
K: "I'm not saying that we won't come back to it, but you know that things are not looking so good right now."
G: "Yeah, man. Sorry. Do what you need to. Nothing fazes me anymore."
K: "You ever thought about redoing it?"
G: "What?"
K: "Redo the entire film. Keep the kids and recast the rest. Just reshoot the movie. It has a future, you know. You can learn from the mistakes you made, and really get the movie you want. I could finance the post, but we'd have to find investors for the raw production costs."
G: "Sorry, not an option."
K: "You are too fucking stubborn."
G: "Yeah, I know."
K: "Whatever. Did you finish the treatment yet?"
G: "Not quite. Almost there."
K: "Are you fucking with me?"
G: "No, seriously, I'm almost done."
K: "Grant, you are a goddamn train wreck to be around, you know that?"
G: "Yeah, I know, I'm sorry."
K: "Do you want anything to work out?"
G: "Of course."
K: "Then finish the treatment, and get your friend on board again. Not two months from now, not one month from now, but goddamn NOW."
G: "You so sexy when you talk like that."
K: (laughs) "And don't put this shit on your blog. That's a breach of confidentiality."
G: "I won't, I know. Don't worry."
K: "Yeah, right. I expect to see this up 5 minutes after you get off the phone."
G: "No, no."
K: "Alright, I'll talk to you later."
G: "Thanks."

Honestly, nothing fazes me anymore. So now we're in turnaround. That's just great. Life is great. Har de har.