I am also not a successful screenwriter and director, and these things are probably connected.
But that’s just my interpretation, because I am a 35,000-boxes-of-office-crap-on-18-tractor-trailers half-empty kind of person. And even if it does, there’s a good chance it’ll end up in a file box bound for nowhere, a needle in a haystack made out of other, larger haystacks. This story - particularly the part where 642 screenplays in which humans had presumably poured out their best ideas, their deepest longings, and their most persistent emotional issues - struck me as a convincing argument against screenwriting as a career choice.
Now it’s a movie, with Frozen’s Josh Gad as the groom and Kevin Hart as the titular ringer it’s also Garelick’s directorial debut.
Wedding ringer professional#
One of them was The Golden Tux, a script by Jeremy Garelick and Jay Lavender about a socially awkward groom-to-be who hires a professional to pose as his best man. When the Walt Disney Company 1 sold Miramax to a holding company in 2010, the assets transferred included 642 unproduced screenplays, which, according to a source quoted in the Times article, “were valued in the transaction at exactly nothing.” All told, 35,000 boxes of paperwork changed hands in the Miramax sale once these boxes were shipped via 18 tractor-trailers from New Jersey to a warehouse in the Valley, the producer Adam Fields cut a deal with the new owners entitling him to dig through this mammoth slush pile in search of viable properties. Late last month, the New York Times explored the curious case of The Wedding Ringer, which opens in theaters this week, a mere 14 years after the screenplay was written and sold.
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