David McCloskey

You got your office space.

The rest of the day, they scrounge up furniture, typewriters, call in favors to get the phone lines connected.

And they install, this is important, right?

That the number doesn't look strange and that it's listed.

So they install several working phone lines, including, and they make sure that a few are listed in kind of key directories.

Seidel will man the office and the phones for the duration of the operation because you,

You need a real person to answer the phone if someone in Iran calls to check out what's going on at Studio 6.

Seidel's wife, Andy, is brought in to act as the production secretary.

And Seidel basically tells her what they're up to and that she's going to be working starting Monday in the offices of Studio 6.

production.

So by Sunday... Mendes has been in Hollywood for like 48 hours at this point.

And he's already got a company.

They've got the production company.

They have an office.

They have phones.

They need a movie, Gordon.

You need a movie.

You need a movie.

I think there might be some kind of analytic bias going on here with you choosing sci-fi in the desert.

Well, the same is true with the Dune films, the recent films, which are largely the desert scenes shot in Jordan near Wadi Rum.