Interview · moment 6 of 26
Pitching an Irish Family Netflix Movie (with Tim as the Singer)
from Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343 · #343
4 min
Guest
Colin recounts pitching a Netflix movie about an Irish family with interns sitting in on the meeting, Netflix passing on it, and the plan to have Tim Dillon play a bar-band singer in the film.
- Tim pitched Netflix an Irish family story and got rejected immediately.
- Tim was going to be the lead singer in a bar band in the film.
- Tim asks about the ideal business approach to funding a hypothetical movie.
- Tim mocks his guest for calling a subprime mortgage boiler room a 'real job.'
- Discussion of how newer generations understand being a small businessman out of necessity.
- To make a movie work, you'd have to raise money so people could actually recoup their investment.
- You'd theoretically have to kidnap Joe Rogan's dog to fund an independent film.