That’s right, this semi-year’s Semi-Annual Dan & Vince Creative Retreat is in the books. We went to Antigua (and before you ask, yes, we saw Britney. We talked for a minute, gave her some tattoo ideas) and bounced ideas off the walls, off each other, off the dolphins, and we are now creatively re-energized. Re-energized. That’s the kind of word that needs its own font, you know? It’s so...expressive, energetic. I’m thinking something with lightning bolts.
Sorry. Got sidetracked. So we’re in Antigua...you know, I’m always a little surprised when people let us out of the country, and more so when they let us back in. Our passport photos were taken in Vegas after an evening that, in retrospect, we’re maybe not so proud of. I don’t know if Dan will show you his, but I’ll show you mine.
Ok, so we’re in Antigua, retreating, at this little bar that looks out over the ocean, me and Dan, and we’re watching the waves and the people in them, and we get this idea for a movie. It’s this:
You can see the outline of the glass of Scotch that gave me the idea, and also the signature (top right corner) of one of the people in the waves who gave me the idea, too.
First thing off the plane this morning, we get picked up and taken to a pitch meeting. This is a guy who passed on our "Dream-sequence idea", but liked it enough to want to hear what we came up with next. Without a word, we slid the napkin across the desk to him. He looked at it for a while, then we had this conversation.
Creative Exec: So it’s girls, with big boobs, and guns.
Vince: Right.
CE: Feminists might not like it.
Dan: No, it’s cool. Check out the one in the middle. She’s got glasses.
Vince: She’s the smart one.
Dan: She even gets two guns.
CE: Ok, makes sense. But, wait...how is this different from Charlie’s Angels?
Vince: Two things. One, there’s a smart one.
Dan: Right, that’s one. And two, there’s four girls, not three.
Vince: You just said a lot of numbers.
Dan: Pay attention. I told you that purple drink before we left was a bad idea.
Vince: It was good, it tasted like – excuse me.
Then I had to rush out, so I missed the last bit of the meeting, but long story short, he wrote us a big check and the movie's coming out next summer.
Vince out.
