stuck on you

As promised/threatened, here's the beginning of what I think will be a recurring thread -- industry information for the aspiring screenwriter.

I'm not talking about the process of writing a screenplay, but the business of being a screenwriter. And part of that is learning the foreign language of Hollywood. Let's start with...

attached, adj. In the real world it means 'joined, connected, bound'.

In Hollywood it means that someone of value has verbally agreed to have their name associated with a "project", with the goal of that valuable name giving the project "momentum" or causing it to be "set up" at a studio.

For instance, we have a Comedian/Actor attached to one of my scripts. How did he get attached? His wife read the script and told him he was doing it.

How long will he be attached? Until he's not.

So now I'm doing a revision based on meetings with The Manager, The Producer, and The Comedian/Actor's people. Then The Producer will "take out" the new script to "the town" with the "attachment".

See, it's just that simple.