Drew McWeeny

Uh, this was, this was actually something that, uh, I wasn't aware of.

Uh, I follow Drew McWeeny on, uh, Blue Sky, and he mentioned it.

He's like, "If you're looking for a good Tim Curry deep cut, this is the one to go for." I was like, "Okay, let's, well, let's fucking do that one then."

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Awesome.

Yeah.

It is not surprising that that's a Drew McWeeny recommendation.

I, uh, recently had the occasion to, uh, slide into his DMs, and, uh, he, um, he approves of us using MovieGod and Remake This! in this podcast [laughs] by the way.

So he and his team execute this highly strategic, wildly risky maneuver.

They take their own script, the one Weinstein hated, and they deliberately leak it to a guy named Drew McWeeny, who wrote for the very early Internet movie blog Ain't It Cool News.

You really have to contextualize the power dynamics of the Internet in the late 90s to understand this.

Today, a script leak is a dime a dozen on social media.