So when you find yourself facing the incomprehensible “reality” of what people might be thinking or not thinking about your project, you jump to WAY too many conclusions.

Being in the entertainment industry, you face rejection everywhere. Hell, half the time, you can’t get the right cup of coffee, much less and production deal (I know that doesn’t sound very LOA, but hear me out).

So when I got no response from a handful of prod cos and actors, I assumed that they just chose to play the “I’m so busy I don’t have time to make a five second phone call to say it’s a pass” card. But my infinite ability to limit the limitless and infinite triumphed!

Lo and behold, the calls began to roll in. People I had written off called to get more information. People returned my follow ups to say they just haven’t gotten to it, but they will shortly. Really stellar news when these companies are producing $100 million dollars or more worth of movies every year.

So lesson?

Just when it feels that things MUST have gone up in smoke, you’re usually going to end up looking like an idiot who wasted TONS of time making assumptions.

So I’m making the commitment to stay focused on the outcome and not get attached to all the manifestations, or lack there of. That’s what this LOA work has ALWAYS been about.

Becoming A Hero is a CHAMPION and it will manifest as it’s supposed to manifest.

Meanwhile, we’ll be putting up character descriptions so you can submit your headshots and resumes.

Shoo-gah-gah!

Andrew

As we try to do with everything surrounding BAH and The Kenway Chronicles we did a little visualization. In this one, we visualized the iconic director/producer brothers (penny if you guess them) who just emphatically requested the script, shaking hands and passing smiles.

Yeah. I went there.

So there was energy that was coming up about what it would truly be like, sitting across the table/desk from those guys and talking about becoming a hero. I could hear the A/C running and the phone ringing in the front room. Very real. Very vivid in my mind.

So the thing that was coming up for me was just the energy of, “I’m going to be working with people I’ve loved and respected for YEARS. And that’s awesome. AND I know I’m just as important, if not more, to the success of the film.

Mighty important, aren’t I? I love me.

Watched Meet Bill, last night. Aaron Eckhart is awesome. We went out to him today. He has always been a favorite of mine. He’s just the right kind of guy for…well everything. That’s the power he has. He’s the dashing and confident Harvey Dent, and he’s the wicked, maniacal Two Face and then he’s the delicately lovable loser in Meet Bill. And don’t get me started about arc. Man. Have you seen Thank You For Smoking (directed by Jason Reitman…he did Juno and it was his feature directing debut)? Stellar performance to put it mildly.

All and all, things rolling well.

Keep smiling…keep shining…knowing you can always count…

Blizz-zow!

Andrew

So I wrote a totally whimsical email to James McAvoy’s agents in the UK. Denise and I had talked about him and how much we liked him, but he seemed just a touch young for my Arlin. At the time, though, Denise was totally crushing on him so I sent the email.

Not crapping…they wrote back and requested the script. I just sent it over.

He’s a brilliant actor I know I could direct him well in the role. Actually, over-the-top.

Well, cross your fingers.

Yah-kah-kah!

Andrew

It’s real easy to get wrapped up in “rules” when trying to make a movie. Hell there’s protocol for everything, even what day of the week to send your script to an agent or what time of day to make calls and take them. Total horse crap. (yeah I’ll tag that)

Out yonder window go the rules. When I first came to Hollywood years ago, I really didn’t care what reputation I had and so I just went straight to the top. In a matter of two months, with NO connections of any kind, I had our script in the hands of William H. Macy, Charlize Theron, Jeff Goldblum, Micheal Vartan and a few other people who’ve slipped my mind (probably from exposure to agricultural pollution in Bakersfield). And I did it by just calling agents and managers and being myself.

If you know ANYTHING about Hollywood then you know how ridiculous that was to create.

Unfortunately, I started to listen to everyone’s rules about how you have to do things when big names start liking your stuff. And of course it all went to poo, real quick.

But never a dreary fellow (don’t ask Denise about it, though) I’m dropping my “rules” and I’m going to bend and break most of the rules because it’s been so damn long in coming, the opportunity to make this movie.

Look out Paul Rudd’s agent Shani at UTA! I’m coming for you and I’m NOT gonna’ play by the rules!

…Unless of course you can bring Paul into the mix for us…I’ll shine your shoes for you then…I’ll take your wash to the…WAIT A SECOND!

See. When good manifestations and giant opportunities are laid in front of me, the habit has been to grab on and squeeze all the hope out of them instead of letting it ripen and mature and then gently fall into my outstretched hand.

Plunk. Right into my hand. You hear that, Paul Rudd? You’ll be Arlin. I feel it. I have since Denise first brought it up. (Any of you out there reading this, hold the vision of Denise and Paul Rudd, big smiles on their faces, at the premier of Becoming A Hero.)

Off to shatter more of my learned rules and regulations. You ought to try it yourself!

Bork-Bork!

Andrew

You can find resistance hiding every damn place. I suppose that’s been part of the issue behind not getting a flick to fruition, but getting real close over the last five years.

So I tap a little. But mostly, i just tell myself what I want to happen. Think real hard about it. And 99% of the time, the emotions start to come on and I feel a billion times less resistant.

Why do I have to do that?

Who frakking cares? It works. It gets me feeling better and that creates a space that gives me inspiration and creates great stuff…like all the reads at ICM.

So I’m not as organized with my LOA work, as Denise is (that’s why she creates so amazingly…her consistency). I do however keep my mind focused on what I want, mix in the feelings, then ride that to my beautiful future.

Just got a new webcam. I’ll be doing some video blogging in a few days.

BOO-YAHKA!

Andrew

So if you haven’t noticed, we seem to be implementing new product after new event, after new marketing, after new on and on and on… In the process of generating buzz and getting the mighty and powerful wheel of publicity rolling, it can be easy to forget that all those people you’re talking to on the phone and all those emails you’re sending don’t really exist.

Hell. Even this post doesn’t exist. The only thing that matters in where your vibe is hanging. More often than not, my vibe hangs out on the border between “Total belief in all things LOA” and “If LOA doesn’t work 100%, then at least I’ve got this cargo ship full of work that I’ve done”. This morning, I was leaning a bit more towards the latter than I normally do.

From this funk, I managed to slip into grumpy bastard as I was walking into the coffee shop. At the instant I said to myself, “Screw this, I don’t think my vibe has jack sh** to do with anything in my life, I step smack into a GIANT glob of gum. I’m talking huge too. And not some nonstick sugar free stuff. I’m talking sticky, nasty full pack of hubba-bubba.

So as I’m step-stick-fwap, step-stick-fwap (the “fwap” is the sound of my sandal smacking my heal as the gum gives up it’s grip on the pavement), step-stick-fwap into the coffee shop I realize that right now is the time to change the circumstances in my mind.

I always feel like I’m having a Kurosawa moment (you know, very long and drawn out for dramatic emphasis) when I notice where my vibe has been. So I stood in line and said to myself, “It could be worse…I could be covered in sh**.”

Just the visual on that always makes me laugh. You’re standing in front of your house as it burns to the ground…all your worldly possessions smoldering to ruin right before your eyes. And then a big truck, one that they use to clean out porto-potties comes rumbling up and slams on the brakes. The big cap on top slides off and the momentum of the truck sloshes an absolute tidal wave of poo smelling foulness that just splashes itself over you…down your shirt, in your hair, into the toes of your shoes.

See, it really can be worse.

Moral of the story? Pack a lunch when watching a Kurosawa flick? No.

Moral of the story: Never forget that your vibe is the most important thing, or your house will burn down and you’ll end up covered in sh**.

Big Smiles,

Andrew

Yeah. I’m a total BSG geek, but how can I not be? I’m a fan of good filmmaking/TV and BSG is that.

Anyway, I feel like things are cranked way up. We just got phenomenal coverage from ICM and we’ll be having a meeting there soon.

It’s not that big a deal in the big picture, but the reality is that we’ve released whatever resistance has been coming up in us for years. Something always slowed the train, but it’s different today.

Also, we’ll be hearing back from the Make A Wish foundation hopefully this week with great feedback. It’ll be a dream come true to have the ability to help them in a very public and hopefully MASSIVE way.

Our dreams coming true = other people’s dreams coming true too.

Remember that. Don’t play small or docile for other people’s sake. You’ll end up leaving tons of help on the table, that could be given to other folks.

Yeah. I’m big.

Bigger than just the C.A.G. I’m Commander All The Way.

Andrew

I love movies. Plain and simple. They make my heart beat. I’ve spent what feels like eons with all of the greatest people in film. Bogey, Ford, Speilberg, Freeman, Grant, Wilder, Stewart and the list goes on and on. You’ll learn a lot about my love affair with film as this experiment goes on.

As I begin here, I want to let you know that my resistance has run deep for many years, and still…still…I’ve been able to create a PHENOMENAL script, a BEAUTIFUL star and the clearest vision I’ve ever had for a story I’ve read.

I know that will be a big part of what makes The Chronicles manifest. I’m so clear and vivid in my mind’s eye, it’s like doing a constant visualization. I know it’ll help because I am even starting to see what things are going to have to look like off the screen.

I’m giddy.

Always more coming,

Andrew