To Steve Barr

Mate, you can't have my songs, my stories, my likeness or my filmmaking abilities. I hate you with every fibre of my being for being a self-centred, abusive prick. Disney made you into a monster. The idea that you could steal my screenplay, bully me into losing my job, then leverage your social connections to threaten me into performing the leading role is corruption, not competent producing. Any competent producer would have met me. They would have negotiated fairly, then they would have provided paperwork that I would have signed kanohi ki te kanohi. The fact that you didn't do this means that you are an incompetent producer. Your colossal ego and total lack of sense is why you blackmailed me. - You can never have bar 1 of any original songs of mine. My script isn't legally available to you. I'm turning it into a book. - Don't pretend. You knew I was too poor to file an injunction, so you threatened me while buttering up Toa Fraser to be the journeyman director that you could control, at least until the pilot was produced and Disney was willing to pony up for a full season. You stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Film Commission. I know TVNZ made you resign to pursue Weeded Out, so your actions are reprehensible. Glen Kyne is gunning for you. It's that simple. He's better-connected. Paddy Gower is gunning for you. He's principled and a friend of mine. The NZ Police are gunning for you. Your blackmail made it into a frontline investigation. Leave the country now, or expect to face a lengthy jail term. Michelle Cameron came forward about your casting couch nonsense. Gemma Knight will probably do likewise. - Unlawful sexual connection, fraud and blackmail. That's the sum total of your efforts. There is no path to compromise: the compromise is that you might avoid prison by fully cooperating with the investigation and admitting who put you up to it. We want Mr. Luxon and your higher-ups at Disney. If you can't be reasonable, then you'll be the scapegoat and serve your full sentence without the possibility of parole. You and Mr. Mendes have turned a contract dispute into Fargo meets Hannibal. At least two people are dead because of your actions. Please contemplate this post, then cease harassing me and leave NZ. That's the most magnanimous that I can be. I want you in prison for decades.