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...Sorcerer's Stone shortly after its British publication but before the book became a smash. He brought the project to Warner Bros. (like TIME, owned by Time Warner), which optioned the book. The plan is for a live-action film, with Harry played as a British schoolboy. A first script, by Steven Kloves, who wrote and directed The Fabulous Baker Boys, is due by the end of the year...
...cutthroat world of television, though, the best that aspiring writers can hope for is that alums will take a look at their script submissions...
Rock is making the most of his moment. He could have stuck to the Eddie Murphy/Martin Lawrence path to fame and fortune: 1) sign up for a buddy-cop film; 2) ad-lib your way through the criminally formulaic script; 3) get paid; 4) repeat. But Rock is playing it smart and working with Hollywood's edgiest comic directors. He has a co-starring role in Dogma, a film by Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy); a lead opposite Morgan Freeman in Nurse Betty, a film by Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men); and a star turn in I Was Made...
...TIME's Contributors page. But just in case, I went out to breakfast with him in L.A., and he spent the morning telling me how great I was and how he wanted to be part of the "Joel Stein business." I told him I didn't have any scripts or ideas for scripts or even the ability to write a script. This did not deter him at all. It was all so overwhelming and exciting, I forgot to ask him what a manager does. This, I now realize, is probably how Mike Tyson got hooked up with Don King. Because...
Then I started hearing rumors about myself. A guy at Fox told me my name popped up in a development meeting. I realized that this was the biggest opportunity I'd ever have to sell a script. The trick would be signing a deal before anyone found out I couldn't write one. This may be how most movies get made...