Zimmer: UTA is mining dormant scripts to revive past viable projects
Jeremy Zimmer · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · Jul 25, 2020 · at 9:14
Jeremy Zimmer, CEO of United Talent Agency (UTA), explains how agents adapt their client representation and project generation during pandemic production shutdowns.
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“In some cases we're going backwards, particularly with writers where, you know, so many writers have written really good scripts and really good projects that somehow didn't come together. And in the hustle bustle of daily life, you've got to move on to the next thing. So we're also looking backwards and remembering the script that someone wrote eight years ago for Paramount and then You know, three paramount regimes change, but the script's still really good. And how can we bring that back to life? So we're doing that.”
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