Coyote vs. Acme finally gets its big break

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  Sammy Birch is a screenwriter in Hollywood.

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  Back in 2020, she was in the running to work on the Warner Brothers movie Coyote vs. Acme.

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  There were a lot of meetings with studio executives.

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  The last one I remember, almost like Ned Beatty in Network.

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  I mean, that kind of long,

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  I'm sure it wasn't like that, but just like a long table of people staring at me.

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  She got hired in February and went to the Warner Brothers lot to meet with the director, Dave Green,

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  and producer Chris DeFaria.

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  The three of them got out this big poster board and threw up note cards with script ideas written on them.

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  Dave and I and Chris were just beginning the bones of like an outline and the tone.

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  And there were like hundreds of note cards that we put on the wall.

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  That outline became a script.

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  Actors got attached big names like SNL's Will Forte, WWE's John Cena, and T-A-T-B-I-L-B's Lana Condor.

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  Oh, that stands for To All the Boys I've Loved Before, for those who don't know.

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  LJ and Peter Kavinsky forever.

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  I love them.

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  Anyway, the Coyote vs. Acme movie wrapped in 2022, and they arranged a release date for 2023. Meanwhile,

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  another movie Sammy had written had become a critical hit called May-December.

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  She was preparing for a...

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