Uncover the Mysterious Power of the Ladybug Effect with Greg Porper – SYS Podcast Episode 535 Exclusive!
Greg Porper
That’s a great question. There’s so many projects that I’ve written in the past that as I’m writing it, as passionate as I was about it when I started, it kind of fizzles for one reason or another. In the case of Larry, I was so obsessed with this character. I was so excited to dive in and explore. And it’s something that just like truly like was a joy to write. And it’s something that for such a long time, we all got this as writers. We have the writer’s block or we just, there’s just that fatigue over an idea. And thinking of this idea and having it in my head in different variations for over a year and never once being sick of it. And on top of seeing how people react to it, that was kind of enough fuel to say like, all right, this is the project that I’ve been looking for. I love the possibilities. It can kind of go in any direction. The web series was fun to make. How do we build on this world or we set up these little nuggets of things in the web series that we then expand upon in the movie. But then how to, of course, how do we make this not feel just like a bigger web series? How do you make it feel like a full budget movie? So, I just, I think it’s just because there’s an enthusiasm to work on the project. And we did 20 drafts of this thing because everything’s a puzzle in this script. There’s a cause and effect. So one little change on page, one little change on page three affects the rest of the script. And there was over 10 full page one rewrites. But every time we had a page one rewrite, as opposed to being like, oh, I can’t believe I’m doing this again. It’s like, great, I cannot wait to see how the story’s going to change now because of this one little nugget that changes on page three. And that was just a sign that like, this is that project.
