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Originally Posted by Greg (FossilMan)
Just please promise me your character isn't go to win the 2004 Main Event. Would be unrealistic, and to me personally, very annoying.
Thanks, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)
I absolutely will not be! This pilot is not meant for network TV, it's meant for a paid cable network, particularly HBO. I grew up watching Oz, The Sopranos, Rome, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones. I want it to have that raw quality that those shows have, where it feels real.
For instance, an arc for a character on my show might be a guy who got super lucky at the beginning of the boom when the play was super awful and made a fortune without having much skill, moved to Vegas with other successful players who actually have talent, crashes and burns, gets desperate and does dumb stuff, and ends up killing himself or going to jail.
Plugging it again, I did post the first 13 pages (
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Li2...ju2Bfg_En/view) and would appreciate it if anyone could take a look and give me honest feedback (even if it's brutal). I think you'll see from the first 13 it has the above mentioned quality, plus there is a twist (that gets revealed at the end of the pilot) that I want to see if you guys can guess.
Last edited by TheBoom; 11-19-2017 at 06:41 AM.