Mr. Harrison, who called the process of screenplay development a kind of "script soup," based some of his directing choices on bringing up his two daughters, who, he said, "were my best friends one minute and the next minute slamming the door".
After more than two years of securing rights to the book from Warner Brothers and a further year of screenplay development with screenwriter Tony Gilroy, the film went through two years of production.
OK Cupid, in its profile, comes across as the witty, literate geek-hipster, the math major with the Daft Punk vinyl collection and the mumblecore screenplay in development.
I do the maths in my head: 10 years living the life described in Kill Your Friends, then five years between writing the novel and getting it published, and then five years between the screenplay and development hell.
"So," she asked Mr. Gentile, "what exactly are you looking at pertaining to me?" He went on for a few more minutes about the William Morris Agency and a screenplay in development — "Nick Pileggi was very helpful in the beginning of that process," he said, referring to the screenwriter — and then the meeting ended.
In Birch's in-tray is a teetering stack of projects, including a commission from the Royal Court, a children's play for touring troupe Pentabus and a work for Clean Break, who specialise in drama relating to women and crime, and a screenplay in development for the iFeatures programme, an adaptation of Nikolai Leskov's Russian novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.
The poster was rendered by comic artist Tone Rodriguez, with whom Schlattmann had previously worked on a screenplay in development at 20th Century Fox.
Many more have screenplays in development.
Joe "Basic Instinct" Eszterhas has nine unproduced screenplays in "development hell", for which he has been paid around $23m [£13m ]
Other Marvel feature-length screenplays in development include "Captain America" by David Self ("Thirteen Days"), "Nick Fury" by Andrew W. Marlowe ("Air Force One"), "Thor" by Mark Protosevich ("Poseidon"), and a new "Incredible Hulk" film by Zak Penn ("Elektra").
Every spring some of the foundation's flowers bloom at Tribeca in the form of staged readings of screenplays under development, and it is in these readings and the discussions that follow that one can perhaps most clearly discern the shape of the cultural beast still fighting to be born.
