The World Ends In Early December
Today, Huili and I spent a few hours during our daily conference call finishing the latest iteration of the Pillow Crisis outline. This time feels like the last time, although I am positive I have written these words before. Nonetheless, the outline has improved with every subsequent draft: all unsolved theorems have been proven, all the jigsaw pieces fit together, and the song rocks.
Huili flies from London to Los Angeles in late April. During his visit, we will both take the train up to the setting of our movie, San Francisco, to visit all of the locations in the film, and block out the action sequences. The fact that I have written an entire movie set in San Francisco should come as a surprise to anyone familiar with my antipathy for the soulless pretention of the world's greatest outdoor mall, but my reasons will become quite apparent when the screenplay is released to my friends and family.
As a celebration of our completed outline, Huili and I dug into our archives to determine the date we began work on Pillow Crisis. Our curiosity was an entirely morbid one, as we've been working on this movie, off and on, for four-and-a-half years, a fact that never fails to pull us to the brink of despair. The exact date? December 3, 2003.
Which makes Pillow Crisis a Sagittarius, an astrological sign I find highly appropriate, given what the movie is about. The main character of Pillow Crisis is also a Sagittarius, having been born on December 6, and her astrological sign, believe it or not, has been a consistent guide to her personality.
All this pleasant synchronicity gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling about the movie's prospects.
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