The making of "Star Crossed" the movie. My notes from an Indian jail.

Krasinski hooks me up

I should have been surprised. He actually called me back. Krasinski called me. Not only that, he had to make an effort to find me since I never gave him my phone number. We had been shuffled out of his family’s house before I had a chance to give him my contact details. Amazing.

Why wasn’t I surprised? I don’t know but I think I somehow convinced myself that this whole crazy idea was the right thing today. One way or another it was going to happen.

I was focused. For once in my life. It felt good.

It was about 2 weeks later when he called. I remember the number that came up on my phone was labeled as ‘undisclosed.’ A telemarketer? Nope. Somehow I knew.

“It’s John Krasinski.”

“John, good to hear from you.” My tone made me sound like this was so natural. As if my old friend was calling me back. Man, was I transforming.

“I’ve got some updates and I can’t really believe I’m saying this but, ah, George likes your idea.”

Clooney. Ho-ly shit.

“Cool,” I somehow said with a straight face. Inside my brain was high-fiving my brass balls. Was this really happening?

“This whole approach is, uh, unconventional, especially since you don’t have a screenplay or anything,” said John. “But he wants to talk with you about the idea.”

“Sounds good.”

“Uh yeah ‘sounds good’. Just so you know, we all get these movie ideas pitched to us all the time. I mean all the time. So this is not normal. In a good way, but just….you know, not normal.”

“I understand that,” I said, not understanding. “Out of curiosity, what was it that he liked about the idea?”

“You’ll have to ask him. If I had to guess though, he probably thought it was a bit crazy and had a high chance of being fun. Ask him.”

“Ok, so when can I call him?”

“Doesn’t work like that.”

Turns out guys like me don’t get Clooney’s number. He calls me. All these guys call on ‘undisclosed’ numbers. Famous person fun fact:  they all use Skype. Who knew?

Oh by the way, John finally started speaking to me last night here in our cell. He apologized for the cow incident which by now may have made the news. I need to write about that. It’s partially why we’re in jail. He said he’s been thinking about the project. He thinks it still has a chance even though we’ve spent all the budget. Also, Clooney and Khan aren’t speaking to each other since they’ve both been caught hitting on each other’s girfriends. Jackie Chan wants his money back. It’s complicated.

But the important thing is he’s excited about this again. John thinks he can smooth over the Bono issue. After all, the song we made for him isn’t that bad. Here’s the thing: You can’t take Bono’s voice, write a song around it, leak it to the media claiming it’s his that he wrote for our movie. I’ve learned that now.

John says he needs to make a phone call. He says there’s only person who can save this project now. That man is Ben Affleck. This keeps getting more and more insane. I’ve never been happier.