Happy Accidents by David Ahearn & Frank Ford & David Wilk

Author:David Ahearn & Frank Ford & David Wilk
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-04T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 4.1 The cast of Get Lost

After the script was written, we began our makeshift preproduction. We enlisted every favor that we had with local production houses to give us equipment on the cheap, and we begged our friends in the film industry to work for drastically reduced wages in order to shoot this pilot. The people who work in film production are some of the hardest-working and nicest folks in the world, and if they believe in a project they will literally go to the mat to help create the project. That was certainly the case with Get Lost.

We began shooting the pilot in June of 2006. You might not know this, but in Texas the average temperature outside in June is F.U. It begins hitting the 100-degree mark very early, and in our script we set the pilot episode at Christmastime. Apparently in 2006 none of us had access to a Farmer’s Almanac, or else we would have discovered that Fort Worth in June looks about as much like Christmas as John Goodman looks like George Clooney.

By the end of June 2006, we had ourselves a pilot, and to our great surprise no one really gave a damn. It just made its way around to local agents and no one knew quite what to do with it. The response to the pilot was overwhelmingly positive nonetheless, but everyone told us that we wouldn’t get anywhere without a high-profile Hollywood agency. For a group of “Yes, and” guys, our pilot project became a lot of work and a lot of money for a lot of “No, but.” But this was not the end of the story.

Later, a local agent in Dallas/Fort Worth asked to rep the project in the hopes of selling it to the networks. We left the fate of the project in the hands of that local agent and soon discovered that no progress was being made to sell it. We really needed legitimate Hollywood contacts just to have someone take a look at the project, which simply was not something that a local agent could provide. We realized that we needed a Hollywood agency to sell the project; anything coming from outside the Hollywood system usually is dismissed. Our plan to conquer Hollywood had hit a roadblock. We came to realize that Hollywood did not much care about a comedy show in Fort Worth. It was our job to convince them that they should. The work was just beginning.

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