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  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • May 27
  • 1 min read

You don't own Taylor, and she came up with an idea for a musical that you didn't like. If you're being incredibly rude about her decision to leave Searchlight, then I think that you're being anti-competitive, and antitrust lawyers need to break up your conglomerate. It's a fucking indie musical on a low budget, not the next Marvel film. Behave accordingly. The IP isn't yours, and your ideas are beyond pathetic. - Taylor and Paul are the big fish, but we're all in the same boat: we own our songs. A development deal is hardly a feature film script. WB-Discovery owns the rights we need. If everyone could crack writing an original musical for the screen, then she wouldn't have sought me out. Between pedigree and experience, I'm a pretty solid choice. - We want to do something adult. You're afraid of sexuality; it's hardly going to work. She's 36, not 17. Sir Peter was the one who worked out that we could do Baby Face, so it's his expertise that is really the fulcrum in this Disney vs. IM war. Fran is into it, so she'll probably get involved with our scrappy little musical.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
May 26

My IP isn't your property, including that little blues song. You are forced to accept that I don't want to make Baby Face, only Taylor's version. I've got two full scores for musicals that are simply awaiting production. Mx. Swift might only have one idea on the go, but I'm ready with two. You want Shipwrecked on Islands and The Perfumed Garden. Don't pretend otherwise. Why? Because I'm the rare bird: my musicals are all good and good for the screen. Disney can't stand the idea of R18 musicals, but IM is into any musical that works. I can't enter the US unless you bribe Trump. Don't pretend otherwise. Instead, people are willing to come to Wellington on the back of my script pages. That's a sign of the…

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
May 26
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Let's just say that I'm not into being a sex slave; it seems like that's how you see me. My songwriting and performing abilities weren't honed by your people. That's why I'm the rare bird. I can actually sing; your peons wish they could. Taylor wasn't honed by Disney either. She started in country music. Universal distributes her music, but she owns it.

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