Lunch with Doug. He wants to do POP: The Movie. He thinks he can raise $4 million from the licensees (Konami, etc.), then get the rest the usual way. $20 million budget, smart screenplay, him as exec producer, me as director. Release the movie (and the novelization) to coincide with Prince 4… which, given 18-month development cycles, I figure should be either summer or Christmas ‘96.
Four years ago, I was in the midst of Apple II Prince and had just finished the last rewrite of In the Dark. I was 24.
Time is going fast.
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I assume it’s pretty ’strange’ looking back on these diary entries.
Your diary entries are great. I do feel like a bit of a voyeur though.
$20 million budget.. wow…uh, a bit lowball…