What it's like to be a Quibi reject
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"I worried that my career would be over if people heard I couldn't even sell a show to Quibi," former Time magazine columnist Joel Stein writes in The Hollywood Reporter. He adds: "A lot of my friends had packed their old, unsold ideas in a suitcase and traveled with them to the weird new office complex on Barton Avenue in Hollywood. Each had sold at least one to Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s startup, which was funded with $1.75 billion. So when I walked in last February, I wasn’t sure if I’d unload Drunk vs. Stoned (people first smoke weed and then drink whiskey to determine which substance most limits their ability to drive a truck, navigate an escape room and recite a poem); Inside the Phone (record a celebrity’s screen for 24 hours and edit it down to 10 minutes with their commentary); or my scripted film Revenge of the Jocks (the sales team takes over Facebook from the power-mad, mean and sexist engineers) — but I knew I’d make my WGA insurance minimum for the year."
TOPICS: Quibi, Joel Stein
