Ok… so… ya. We haven’t made a blog post in MONTHS. That is ridiculous and inexcusable. We have been VERY VERY busy.

For now we have finished work on our feature-length script Lost Case.We have entered it into the BlueCat Screenplay competition, received some good feedback on it and have decided to put it on the back-burner for now.

We are now working on a project we have been tinkering with for years. It is a TV Comedy series that we may possibly produce ourselves for the web.

We will be attending the 2010 Banff World Television Festival in June, but we aren’t going to be pushing the project so hard on people. We will take a more laid-back approach and just network, learn, relax and possibly try and find some production partners. This year Banff is combined with the annual NextMedia festival, which is somewhat exciting. The world of “pictures” is moving to the Internet, it seems. A lot of the big players are moving into the web world right now. We’ll hopefully also get to meet some celebrities who will be there such as Ricky Gervais and none other than William Shatner himself! We’re very excited.

So there may be a lot of mystery surrounding our new project, but we will make an announcement shortly about the details of the project.

Sorry again for the lack of posts. Things should be picking-up again in the Broken Forty world.

Late last night, it finally happened. Nathan and I finished Lost Case. Or, at least we are finished writing it… For now.

This is the part where a whole new set of challenges present themselves – namely, how to properly market the script without representation.

We are caught in the “Catch-22″ that afflicts most every unrepresented screenwriter: producers (for the most part) don’t want scripts from unrepresented writers, and agents/managers (for the most part) don’t want writers without a few credits. So what’s a struggling writer to do?

Keep working. That’s what we’re gonna do, at least.

We’ve been lucky enough to make a few industry contacts, and we will be courting them all as best as we can in the coming months.

We are also going to enter a few contests. Having a ‘contest winning screenplay’ surely couldn’t hurt…

And, of course, we are also going to start up the next project!

It’s the start of a new year. And it’s going to be a good one.

We have finished a rough draft of our latest project Lost Case! We are in the process of re-working some things and getting to a comfortable “First Draft” in time for a script-exchange we are doing in a couple of weeks with some other local writers.

Early in the process we had some concerns about the page count, but it came in at right around 90 and with the revisions we’re making it seems that it will grow to around 100 even.

We are excited to be at this stage with the project, and can’t wait to get some coverage and keep on going!

We are pleased to announce that we have reached the incredible milestone of being half way through the first draft on our Comedy/Thriller Lost Case!

We started this draft exactly two weeks ago, and need to be finished exactly two weeks from today. Thus far, we are on track. We have written Act One and the first half of Act Two, and need to write the second half of Act two and Act three in the coming weeks.

Stay tuned to our projects page for an updated One-Sheet for Lost Case, and to our blog for news!

We are hard at work on bringing some content to our anemic media section in the form of Hobo’s Heartbeat, a new web series we will be writing and directing.

The series chronicles the misadventures of Ron, a failed con-man living in his car, who has dodged a conventional ‘work for a living’ life and instead chosen to try to scam his way out of the gutter and into high society.

From using stolen travellers cheques to play the exchange rate, to starting a pop-can-Ponzi-scheme,  each episode features Ron chasing rags to riches glory with the help of his band of down-and-out buddies.

We are currently looking for a production partner, so if interested please contact us.