Why didn't Weeded Out get made

Stop telling me it's some kind of tragedy that I have to feel guilty about, particularly given that it's the prospective producers that didn't actually have the guts to draft a contract based on the spec, and then persuade me to sign it. No contract = no movie, and that's the basic reality. If you're wondering why my musicals stand out, it's largely to do with being immune to the groupthink. I'm not a theatre kid. I don't go to lame plays, and I stopped watching new movies compulsively when I started making them; my films take a lot of time to edit, and I mostly watch/rewatch old things. - So, while all of you wanted it to be In The Heights or Pose, I was actually quite happy with my little piece where people quoted Kiwi rock songs and sang NZ folk songs.

Your ideas to make my pieces more like musicals that I have limited patience for is making my patience limited. The legally correct answer is that the music of These Words and Shipwrecked is my IP, and that prevents their use in Weeded Out. That goes for The Perfumed Garden doodles as well. Those are registered with APRA. - These are the reasons, strange as it may seem. There are very specific procedures that one has to follow to acquire the rights to an existing piece of IP, and they shat on those with blackmail and manipulative tactics. All you saw in AMPP Season 1 is that I come from a completely different perspective, and that you were completely wrong to say that my low-budget version of Weeded Out was implausible and misguided for not paying endless crew members.

You had zero interest in the quality of the film: only in the number of jobs it might unlock. If we take this further, I'll kick your arse in court, so respect my letters.