"Platinum Dunes Next Film Is THE BUTCHERHOUSE CHRONICLES"

... so say the headlines around-the-net yesterday.

(I know there's news out there when the decoy blog gets a spike of hits.)

Yes, Stephen Susco—who wrote the successful "Grudge" movies—has signed on to do a rewrite. He and I share a manager and he supposedly really dug my screenplay and loved my stage play: actually wants to try to re-incorporate some stuff from the stage play into the movie version. My manager gave me the lowdown a few weeks ago.

It's a bittersweet thing. It's the nature of the business to juggle writers. And you're particularly vulnerable when it's your first project. I'm thankful it's still alive, thankful they're really pushing it. But suffice it to say, this really is my baby. It may be a high-concept movie now (A Breakfast Club Massacre!) but it started as a deeply personal stage play.

I wish I could've been the sole writer to see it through to the screen. But the studio system is a complicated machine.

I've got to be thankful for what I've got...

What I will have...