What do you do if you are a staff writer on 'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip' and you suddenly have a bunch of free time on your hands? You sell your teen comedy script to a production company and try to be the next John Hughes. At least that’s what husband-wife writing team Chad Gomez Creasey and Dara Resnik Creasey did. Variety says that Rouge Pictures bought the Creasey’s B.F.F. script.
For those of us born prior to 1992, the term “B.F.F.” means best friends forever. “Forever” in the under 14 set usually lasts about six months, but the movie covers the four years in the high school relationship of a nerdy guy and a popular girl and their inevitable coming together. Let me guess, his friends are Lord of the Rings fans and she dates a jerky athlete who treats her badly.
The Creaseys say that the project is similar to John Hughes’ teen comedies. Considering that Hughes hasn’t made said type of movie since 1987, either his influence is amazing or the level of quality in teen comedies in the last 20 years is pretty dismal. I’ll vote for the latter. This project sounds uninteresting to me, but the Creaseys also have Sydney White coming out next year. That’s a retelling of the Snow White story in the college greek system starring Amanda Bynes. I might keep one eye open for that and skip B.F.F.
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Edward -
As one of the authors of the script "BFF" I can tell you that is not what the script is like at all. If you'd actually read it before making a snap judgment, you'd know that BFF stands for "Best Friend Fucker" and the script is about high school firsts -- your first time drinking, smoking pot, having sex, partying -- as two unlikely people become friends. And no, his friends are not dorks, and she is not dating some hunky dude. As for "suddenly having a lot of time on your hands" Chad and I continue to work steadily away in both television and features.
Josh T --
I hear you, but it's not like he *asked* for the script. He wanted to make a snarky judgment based on title and the fact that Studio 60 was canceled. If he really wants to read it, I'll see what I can do to facilitate that.
Dara, if we'd had your email address to ask to read the script we would have. We had no way to do that till now... and frankly it's not often a writer offers to hand out their script to be read by a site like this one. Even if we had it I don't know about Ed, but I think we'd have assumed there's no way you'd give it to us.
But Ed (or any of us) still would have given our opinion on the story before reading the script. If we stopped reporting to read the script of every movie we report on, we'd do 1 news story a week. It's just not feasible. So what we do here at CB is we report the news, and give our opinion on the facts available at the time. When we have more information, we tell people and if our opinion changes or if we were wrong initially, we love being able to tell our readers that too, for better or worse.
More often than not, our opinions change as the available information changes. That's just the way it works. It's nothing personal.
Ed arrived at his opinion the same way most people do when deciding if they want to see a movie. For instance if it's directed by Scorsese, and you like Scorsese, you'll probably say "hey I want to see the new Scorsese movie!" Or if it's directed by Michael Bay, and you don't like Michael Bay, then you'll probably say "Ugh, another Michael Bay movie? No thanks."
That's valid, simply because it's impossible for people to see everything and read everything. It's the way the world works.
It sounds like Ed didn't like Studio 60 very much, and the other information he had available on the project at the time didn't sound that interesting to him. That's a valid opinion. He's not saying it will stink, he's just saying it doesn't sound very good to him right now.
That said, I personally loved Studio 60 and I'd love to read the script. I'd also be happy to pass it on to Ed too if you like. If it changes his mind, I'll put a gun to his head and make him come on the site and tell everyone who wrong he was about it. Actually, I doubt a gun will be required. If I know Ed, he'd love nothing more than to do that. Same goes for me.
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Not sure if Ed's email is on there at the moment, but if it's not, email me and I'll forward you on to him as well.
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What do you do if you are a staff writer on 'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip' and you suddenly have a bunch of free time on your hands? You sell your teen comedy script to a production company and try to be the next John Hughes. At least that’s what husband-wife writing team Chad Gomez Creasey and Dara Resnik Creasey did. Variety says that Rouge Pictures bought the Creasey’s B.F.F. script.
May 11th, 2007 at 18:12
Edward -
As one of the authors of the script "BFF" I can tell you that is not what the script is like at all. If you'd actually read it before making a snap judgment, you'd know that BFF stands for "Best Friend Fucker" and the script is about high school firsts -- your first time drinking, smoking pot, having sex, partying -- as two unlikely people become friends. And no, his friends are not dorks, and she is not dating some hunky dude. As for "suddenly having a lot of time on your hands" Chad and I continue to work steadily away in both television and features.