PILOT SESSIONS - 2009 - 2011

               After a very quick period of research, we went back to writing scripts. It was now August 2009 and we wanted to get a fresh start. So we decided to scrap almost all the early script sessions and start something new. The scripts we kept were the episode: "Pink Men," "The Playoffs Have begun," "Nightmare on pleasant St," "the Cable Guy," and "Tomato Tomato."  Out of those five episodes the one that stood out the most to Aramis and I was "Pink Men."  "Pink Men" was already on our original episode list as the pilot before "The Playoffs Have Begun" took the stand. At this point in time we already had 2 drafts of the episode and we were willing to re-work once more and make it be the pilot.

       From August to October we re-worked the episode up to where it was near completion. But Aramis and I weren't happy with it.  So we decided to put the episode on hold for a while and just work on the rest of the season. So I started to work on the second episode titled "The Maple Leaf." Aramis was working on the "Life Will be Hell" aspect of the show. By the end of November, Aramis completed three "Life Will Be Hell" and I completed the first draft of "The Maple Leaf." But we still wanted to finish the pilot before we go any further. So we once more looked at "Pink Men." We were still not happy with it. So the episode was scrapped.

       Then we thought about re-working "The Playoffs Have Begun." We looked at the episode and it needed a lot of work, so we scrapped that one as well. At this point we had no ideas for a new Pilot episode so I suggested that we take some time off from the pre-production of the show. Aramis agreed and we took 4 months off. It was now March 2010, we returned to writing. Aramis decided that we shouldn't work on the Pilot until we have enough ideas to make an "All-Star Pilot." So we decided to work on other episodes.  The one I was mainly focusing on was the episode titled "The Cable Guy." Our first draft of that episode was done but not well. So I wanted to get it right.

     Aramis had other things on his plate like the "Life Will Be Hells."  All the early "Life Will Be Hell" episodes that Aramis had done he had decided to scrap.This was mostly due to it being too much like the James Bond of the books. So we worked on a big  load of scripts over the course of 2010, but all of them were scrapped. We had then decided that we wanted to take the show in a new direction. So we took out characters like Adele, the Knight, Jackie and a few more. And we replaced them with characters like, Sergio and Papa Nicholas (both Friends of Tony). It was now the summer of 2011 and we were ready to write a good pilot.

      We didn't have a title, but we had a story. One of the stories was from our very first script that Aramis and I wrote titled "Tomato,Tomato." The story was about Almorindo and his neighbour (The Tomato Lady as she was called). The neighbour would sneak into Almorindos back yard and cut down his Tomato plants. Almorindo would get his revenge with the hose (As shown in photo below). The other story was about our other main character named Tony "the Big Man" Rissi. His story was a completely new and made up idea and I will not reveal it right now. It took us a while but the script was completed on December 13th 2011 and the episode is titled "A Hell Of A Pilot." The rest of the season was completed in just over a month. Once we got the blood flowing nothing was able to stop us from getting ideas and finishing scripts. So with a full season completed next stop was networks.

Andrew Di Pardo