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After wasting an F’ing solid year of talking about this idea I’ve finally put fingers to keys and banged out a script for Waiting for Waiting for Godot based on Samuel Becket’s “Classic” play Waiting for Godot. l put classic in quotations because I’m of the belief that this play is the original over-hyped piece of garbage.

So- why make a movie about it? Excellent question, skeptical fan. Largely I did it out of self flatulation. Things in my life have been going rather well recently so I needed to torture myself with boring absurdist theater trash to balance everything out. In order to properly adapt/satire the play I had to read it, and re-read it, and watch performances of it, and read idiotic interpretations of it. I’m comfortable in saying that I know more about Waiting for Godot than just about anybody, and I’m not altogether happy about that situation.

The premise of the movie is that two theater critics are sitting in an empty theater waiting for Waiting for Godot to start. The longer they wait the more their ordeal starts to resemble the play itself. The challenge in doing this is that I want the movie to be funny for everyone, not just those of us who have suffered through Godot.

Much of the Filmkid inner-circle has already seen the early draft, and some are familiar with the play and some are not. I’ve quarantined the ones who have not read the play from doing so in order to keep a control group- untainted by Becket- who can give me an un-theater-stained-biased opion of the movie as it exists on its own.

I’ll be working on the script over the next few weeks. The beauty of it is its simplicity. It’s all one location. There’s only a few actors. Should be a cheap and easy shoot. Details on the production as they develop.

NOTE- Any hardcore theater fans who “love” Waiting for Godot who plan on leaving me comments or sending me email about how I just don’t understand the genius behind it please save yourself some time. Unless you have a PhD in the works of Samuel Becket, I am fairly confident I’m more familiar with this play than you. It’s a boring play. It is stupid, and nothing happens. Godot isn’t God. Becket said it himself. He wrote the freaking play in French.