You know, I got an idea for a short prose piece last week. While watching "The Office" on Comedy Central, a commercial came on for "A Quiet Place: Day One." So, I'm sitting there thinking...John Krasinski in both of them. Wouldn't it be something if they did some kind of smash-up? Then I thought, what if a Hollywood agent thought that was a viable idea? And what if he pitched it to Krasinski? So, I wrote it up as a one-sided phone call of the agent talking to Krasinski trying to sell him the concept. And I've been sending that piece around. But as I wrote it, I kept coming up with different scenes and bits the producer would pitch to make the concept viable until I realized...I actually enough here to write up an episode of The Office as this.
So I did.
Much like my "Island of Frankenstein" screenplay, I had no business writing it. Then I remembered years ago that someone wrote a spec episode of "Seinfeld" has if it was still on the air after 9/11. Back in the 90s, writers went through a phase of writing "retro" spec scripts of shows like "I Love Lucy" just to stand out from the crowd. I one time got involved with a theater "producer" who wanted to turn "Oliver Twist" into a TV series called "Fagin's Gang" and I wrote the pilot for that. I got involved with a Hollywood "producer" who kept pitching ideas at me, where I was actually writing loglines and sample pages (which I wrote about here).
It's done. Did anyone else think of this? While I was googling for images for this post, I put it as "The Quiet Office" and only got hits on the TV show. There's lots of sketches I've written that when I posted them here over the years, a search for graphics would bring up a lot of versions of it (like "The Walken Dead" sketch I wrote--man, that had a LOT of takes on it).
Anyway, it's here. It's pretty funny (IMHO) and I think I got the flavor of both...although, there's much more talking here than the movie creatures would allow. I wanted to write Office dialogue, what can I say?
So I did.
Much like my "Island of Frankenstein" screenplay, I had no business writing it. Then I remembered years ago that someone wrote a spec episode of "Seinfeld" has if it was still on the air after 9/11. Back in the 90s, writers went through a phase of writing "retro" spec scripts of shows like "I Love Lucy" just to stand out from the crowd. I one time got involved with a theater "producer" who wanted to turn "Oliver Twist" into a TV series called "Fagin's Gang" and I wrote the pilot for that. I got involved with a Hollywood "producer" who kept pitching ideas at me, where I was actually writing loglines and sample pages (which I wrote about here).
It's done. Did anyone else think of this? While I was googling for images for this post, I put it as "The Quiet Office" and only got hits on the TV show. There's lots of sketches I've written that when I posted them here over the years, a search for graphics would bring up a lot of versions of it (like "The Walken Dead" sketch I wrote--man, that had a LOT of takes on it).
Anyway, it's here. It's pretty funny (IMHO) and I think I got the flavor of both...although, there's much more talking here than the movie creatures would allow. I wanted to write Office dialogue, what can I say?
