Collaboration in Movie Making Process

So I tell this story to Zach, and Zach is like,

he, like, I can tell that these,

I approach things differently, I guess, than,

I mean, Zach's movies are very,

they're not emotional, primarily emotional,

and I tend to approach things in a primarily emotional way.

So I didn't expect Zach to respond necessarily,

but I was there to eat my chicken

and save my peace and go,

and at the end of the night,

and Zach's people pushed back,

and I think they really were trying to protect him

and protect all the work they had done,

and then we walk out to the parking lot

after about two and a half hours, three hours,

and Zach is like, so what are you doing tomorrow?

And I was like, well, scandal, what's going on?

And he's like, well, do you think

you could be here by 7.15?

And I was like, for what, exactly?

And he's like, dude, we're gonna do your movie.

And I was like, what?

And he's like, yeah, let's do that, we should do that.

Like, I'll get whiteboards,

it'll be you and me and Jeff,

and we'll just like re-break the movie from scratch.

And I'm.

And there are like eight people back in the tent.

He hasn't talked to anyone wearing suspenders

back at the ranch with the sideburns.

Like, so I.

The suits.

So I was like, I'm full-time on Scandal, dude, I can't.

So he's like, you can do it, I know you can do it.

And Zach is awesome.

Like, when he looks at you with his surfer-y eyes

and like his tattoos and he tells you you can do it,

no one talks to me that way with.

Okay, if Zach thinks I can do it, I can do it.

So I write the stream in in a week,

and then Zach is like, cool, that got approved,

you're writing the script.

And I said no, no.

Because they needed it in no time.

The movie had a release date.

Like, we're now up against it.

The happy ending is, the movie was made

and it was that movie, so Zach was true to his word.

Oh, well, thank you.

But it's, I mean, listen, look at what happened.

Like, I didn't, there was no job for me.

Yeah, there was no job.

They didn't call and say like,

hey, you wanna write the Wonder Woman movie?

Jeff said, will you come and talk to Zach?

And if Zach hadn't been open and hadn't seen the value of,

I mean, you saw it.

It's a relationship movie.

It has some fighting in it and stuff,

but it's about these two people

and about a mom and a daughter,

but like, it's a relationship movie.

That's what it's about.

That is a profound change from the way that,

and I was convinced that Zach, because of his,

that hasn't been what he's done up until now.

Like, Zach is a hero to me

for championing this vision of this movie.

And you know, Zach and Debbie Snyder

gave notes all along the way,

and it really was this incredible group effort.