The French Thing

So almost back to that part of Canada for awhile, snow and cold. I'm sorry to have doing some work on my script on another who wants to make it, but that's another movie.

Right now I'm pushing into a lot of information for the screenplay called Chase, I mentioned that now and then. The first is part of the screenplay is about a man driving in L.A. and spots a young girl being taken into a van. It seems to be easy but it's not, and not what he thinks it is nor what the girl was.

I mentioned it sometime that it's now called the French name though. It's called La Poursuite. Same thing. I also let the director/writer come in with me for it. I'm still in it and have first name on the credits.

I got a little bit of money to start and we're hoping to finish it next year -- that is 2020.

The movie is in reality a car chase but it turns out to be a lot of different things. My story led the man into the Mojave Desert in my beautiful desert hills but it is going to be different. A big different.

Like the French mountains.

Yes, my movie will be made in the French mountains but it's still the same story.

But for now I have to deal with things like money. The thing is, if I stay in France on the job I will lose a fair amount of money. And that's because Europe has the Euro. What does it mean?

Like this, they paid me as a basic big of money just in case the movie falls apart. And movies do fall apart. But my movie is so far going along within the principals, being me and the director and the money people looking for money.

So here's the problem. I got $2000 for a small basic. The big money comes in when the major people come into it and are ready to make the movie. And what happens is that basic will hold for awhile.
But there's another thing; that $2000 arrived at my bank and left with $3000.

Where did that come from?

From Europe. The European money takes a lot of money from writers or cameramen or anyone on the set and/or part of the movie.

Where does it come?

That $2000 basic gives me an extra piece of money in $3000. And that's if I stay in Canada. Europe has really horrible taxes and so that's if I stay in Canada I get more money than the people there working don't.

So don't you think it's not fair? Don't you want to be on the set?

A long time I learned that nobody on the sets don't really know or care me. One writer said once that you're just someone who is an annoyance and hangs around with the food people. I learned that once and kept it that way.

So it's not going to be bad for me, in fact I will get a lot more than the original.

Right now I'm signing more papers for me being not in Europe. I can go to Paris next year.

So I'm sorry to be so long to deal with this and some other ideas.