William Morris Agency

Sunny California beckoned.

The William Morris Agency was interested in selling Huxley's novels as films.

It was the oldest form of California dreaming, sudden riches under murmuring palms.

NBC Radio's adaptation of Aldous Huxley's After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, where an English writer visits the castle of a Hearst-like character, Joe Stoick.

Jacob Zeitlin was Huxley's first agent in Hollywood.

He wanted to know what he could do in Hollywood.

William Morris Agency, they didn't want him because they knew that he could write anything for them, but they just wanted to be able to say they had Aldous Huxley.

Huxley became a scriptwriter on contract when plans for a film of Brave New World ended abruptly.

Like, are you Stan? I go, yeah, I'm Stan.

I'm William Morris.

She goes, that was incredible, blah, blah, blah.

My name's Marcy Klein.

So it was about 2014 that competitors started knocking on the door and people kind of like traditional, mainly traditional agents and talent managers began to prick their ears up in terms of the budgets that were available in the on YouTube for YouTubers basically and started to want to get in on the action.

So I saw that as competition, but mainly from players like WME, CAA, UTA and so on.

You like spotted early what you were up to.

Yeah.

He lived to kind of a ripe old age.

He was a big muckety-muck at William Morris or CAA or whatever.

It was all...

Andrew, that's all the Hollywood stuff that is gone, like, big time.

So Ari Emanuel, one of Hollywood's top agents.

Now he's a media mogul, right? So Endeavor, his company, bought William Morris, merged, but technically bought, like they controlled it.

Then they went on.

and bought IMG, the media group, and then they bought the UFC, et cetera, et cetera.