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Dean Lorey

Dean Lorey

American writer

Sep 24, 2026

13:40
So the
13:40
only thing that existed were these things.
13:42
And most of them I was hired to write.
13:45
So he did it.
13:46
And then I was going back through them, and I realized there's like... there's like 30 features that I wrote that didn't get made.
13:54
And they were like actual features that some I just wrote on spec in the hopes of selling them and didn't.
14:02
Most of them I was hired to write and they just never got made.

9 MINS LATER

23:23
Because suddenly, like, the world kind of opens up a little bit more.
22:27
i loved it
22:27
me too i'm thank you i'm i'm glad i that was um that was such an odd job for me because uh i my agent's said, David E. Kelly would like to meet with you.
22:40
And I was like, David E. Kelly? Because, you know, he's like an icon.
22:47
And I wondered why.
22:48
And then they said he read a script of yours, he liked it.
22:50
And it turned out that he had written the pilot of The Crazy Ones, which at the time was one hour.
22:57
Then they hired Robin Williams, who I guess David knew from where he lived.

10 MINS LATER

33:19
You kept saying John.
37:15
So how did you become involved with the crazy ones? And what was it like to work with the Robin Williams?
37:21
Well, it was amazing.
37:22
What happened was my agents said, David E. Kelly would like to meet with you.
37:28
And David E. Kelly is an icon and all that.
37:31
And so I couldn't understand why.
37:32
And he had read a spec script pilot that I had written.
37:37
So I went and met with him.
42:02
How in the hell did you manage to spin that many plates?

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