“Inside the Twisted Minds: How Johnny Wickham and Mike Capes Turned Chilling Fears into Hilarious Thrills in SYS 529”
Johnny Wickham
We just got thrown around, strung out for months like yeah.
Mike Capes
I don’t know if anybody does it on purpose, but you know it’s just sometimes in LA a lot of writers and people in this industry realize that there’s a lot more talk than there is action and a friend of mine, a very good friend, had told me that he had a friend that was producing movies. I produced his first film and he pitched a couple of scripts that I had written, a script that I had written before Raptor and then he pitched Raptor. I didn’t even know this. He just sent it to him and he didn’t send him the scripts. He just told him about me. He was in the table reads during COVID for both scripts and he really was just championing me to this potential investor. So, then I’ll catch back up to where Johnny said I go to a wedding in Porta Vallarta and the investor friend was at the wedding. We went down to downtown. We’re partying. I put him on a donkey, which you do in Porta Vallarta. You can ride a donkey around a bar, which is fun. So, I put him on a donkey and we’re having a blast and as we’re walking down the street, he just stops and says, hey, what’s up with that project, Invisible Raptor? And I said, I didn’t know you knew about that. I pitched that and he goes, no, our buddy told me about it and he said, what’s going on with it? We told him the investor story sitting on his hands. We don’t know what’s happening. And then he just goes, well, how about I give you the money? And I said, I didn’t know you had it. And he goes, yeah, I do. And he said, send the script and whatever you got that Monday. So, I did. I sent the pitch video that I made. He immediately got back to me on the pitch video and said, this is hilarious. I can’t wait to read the script. I’ll get back to you by the end of the week. And then by the end of the week, he called me. He set up a meeting with me. We sat down in a wine tasting place in Malibu and he gave me a big hug and said, hey, this is I get tons of scripts sent to me. My girlfriend’s mom sent me a script. He goes, this is the funniest script I’ve ever read. I am all in. He gave me a big hug. And by that next week, the money was in the account ready to go and here in production in like two weeks.
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