![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You send out a script on a Tuesday and on Friday evening you find out that multiple studios want to buy it and basically change your life overnight. That was really the moment that allowed me to quit my day job and do this professionally, full-time. “‘Harry’s’ was a dream scenario where we wrote this script and it sold in four days. “That was actually the break moment,” Desmond said. ![]() In November 2017, he and Sherman got the job to write “Knock at the Cabin” and three months later sold “Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers” to Warner Bros. He surrounded himself with the best of people and ultimately broke into one of the most competitive fields in the world, all without personal wealth or a famous last name.” “He took no shortcuts in refining his craft slowly every year. “He kept his head to the grindstone for years when so many others would have - and have - given up,” Vasnani said. Vasnani is proud of how his friend showed grit to power through the tough years. Vasnani said people often celebrate success but forget what it took to achieve it. But it never made him cynical or jaded about show business. He also edited on a night shift for reality TV shows and wrote commercial treatments, staying in the industry to pay rent while he pursued his dream.ĭesmond said he faced “more rejections than I could possibly count” - though he knows all too well that he wrote 17 scripts that effectively went nowhere. He worked as an assistant to a manager and to a reality TV producer. Being featured for his success again in his hometown newspaper felt like a pretty cool full circle moment, he said.ĭesmond said the first 12 years out of film school were a struggle. The Star did a story about Steve Desmond in 2001, when he was a student filmmaker about to leave for the University of Southern California with dreams to write and direct. ![]()
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