The Letter Writting Campaign
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:58 am
Okay folks, if we want this to happen, lets do what we can to help it along. I'm proposing a letter writing campaign:
Rules are, keep your messages shot and sweet. Be respectful but don't gush, and pick your targets wisely: IMDB is your best friend for this. Actually, IMDB is our main tool for this little project.
How this works is simple. We write emails and/or letters, but never more than one to each 'mark' from a specific person. We're trying to encourage awareness, not spam their mail boxes.
Marks are simple. We want everyone to email Jerry Brukheimer, and the disney people. Whoever you can find that might have something to do with this project. The other tier is a little more complicated. Write the actors/actresses that you would like to get involved. If you write enough of the right ones, we can get more attention to the project and the more big names that may be interested, the more likely it can get made. However, pick your targets carefully.
To get the contact information, take advantage of IMDB's 14 free day trial to IMDB pro. Using that you can find the contact info for almost every person in Hollywood. Please post here who you wrote to and if possible, the email that you sent them. Suggestions for 'talking points' should also be posted here as well. Oh, generally speaking, avoid picking actors that have more than 8 movies in production or pre-production, because that means they're going to be booked up for a looooong time. That's counter-productive to this particular project.
When writing the letter, be casually professional. Don't pretend to be an English professor or a poet, but make sure that you have your spelling and grammar correct. Some errors to grammar for the sake of keeping your own style would also be acceptable, and keeps them from thinking that these emails are just mass produced.
Keep your emails to under 300 words. Less is definitely more, cause the sad fact is people will more likely read something that takes a minute more than something that takes an hour. If possible, keep them within 100 words.
So, if you're interested, get to it. Let us know who you sent to, and if possible, any response you get. Also, spread the word about this to the other people on the forums that don't usually visit this area, as well as palladium fans that don't come to the forums at all.
Hollywood is finally starting to take geek culture seriously, and after the massive success of the Dark Knight, our words have more sway than ever.
Rules are, keep your messages shot and sweet. Be respectful but don't gush, and pick your targets wisely: IMDB is your best friend for this. Actually, IMDB is our main tool for this little project.
How this works is simple. We write emails and/or letters, but never more than one to each 'mark' from a specific person. We're trying to encourage awareness, not spam their mail boxes.
Marks are simple. We want everyone to email Jerry Brukheimer, and the disney people. Whoever you can find that might have something to do with this project. The other tier is a little more complicated. Write the actors/actresses that you would like to get involved. If you write enough of the right ones, we can get more attention to the project and the more big names that may be interested, the more likely it can get made. However, pick your targets carefully.
To get the contact information, take advantage of IMDB's 14 free day trial to IMDB pro. Using that you can find the contact info for almost every person in Hollywood. Please post here who you wrote to and if possible, the email that you sent them. Suggestions for 'talking points' should also be posted here as well. Oh, generally speaking, avoid picking actors that have more than 8 movies in production or pre-production, because that means they're going to be booked up for a looooong time. That's counter-productive to this particular project.
When writing the letter, be casually professional. Don't pretend to be an English professor or a poet, but make sure that you have your spelling and grammar correct. Some errors to grammar for the sake of keeping your own style would also be acceptable, and keeps them from thinking that these emails are just mass produced.
Keep your emails to under 300 words. Less is definitely more, cause the sad fact is people will more likely read something that takes a minute more than something that takes an hour. If possible, keep them within 100 words.
So, if you're interested, get to it. Let us know who you sent to, and if possible, any response you get. Also, spread the word about this to the other people on the forums that don't usually visit this area, as well as palladium fans that don't come to the forums at all.
Hollywood is finally starting to take geek culture seriously, and after the massive success of the Dark Knight, our words have more sway than ever.
You have to understand your market and listen to it. After all the point of being a producer out on the left coast is to make money and I think Rifts could be a huge money maker. So I think this is a fantastic idea. Mr. Bruckheimer needs to know theres a huge market for this project!