One of the reasons I like screenwriting, aside from the length matching my attention span, is that audiences are far more willing to give a movie a shot than a book. If the book sucks, you lost roughly a day of your life. If the movie sucks, you lost a couple hours. So it's no loss if it sucks. But that means that the audience tends to be larger. So it pays to be nice to a screenwriter, because if you appear as a character, they determine the frame you're cast in.
The reason I bring this up is that two more people I know have been cast as characters in my next project. I have a couple people I know in each script I write. My SCA buddy Hammar is in this one, and Oni and Ryu are in my samurai flick. So this one has the guys responsible for my unjust firing. It occurred to me while planning this that a couple cocky dudebros with an "everyone but me is expendable" mentality are JUST the people you want to see leading an army just before it's annihilated. And it felt therapeutic, not going to lie.
Also, an army is annihilated in this one. :P
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