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No love lost between screenwriter and film producer
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MAGINE you’re selling a car. To someone you trust. They give you their word and you give them the keys, which they promptly pass on to a third party who you don’t know and who won’t acknowledge you as the owner. This is what happened to Jon Love, but it was a film script, not a car. The movie in question is ‘Det Grå Guld’, which was released by SF Film at cinemas across the country on March 27. The Scottish screenwriter claims that
he has not been properly paid for his work, receiving just a third of the agreed £15,000 fee, but he concedes that the situation is complicated. “At least morally, I am the owner of that script,” he told The Copenhagen Post. Love, who lives and works in Glasgow, originally developed the script, entitled ‘Harvey and Joan’, through a script development programme run by the Danish Film Institute. He said he was introduced to Søren Juul Petersen, the owner of the Zeitgeist film company, during the programme, who offered to pick up the script. “Petersen initially offered me £25,000, and the whole thing was wrapped up in a one-and-a-half page contract,” Love said. Petersen then set about raising the
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necessary production funds while Love developed the script, he explained. The intent, he said, was to shoot the film in Scotland with Scottish actors under a Danish director. But soon after, Petersen dropped the project, citing an inability to raise funds. Six months later, Love said, Petersen contacted him to say that the film could proceed – only if Love agreed to the film being translated into Danish, as well as an 80 percent pay cut. “I wasn’t happy, but really wanted the film to be made, so I eventually agreed to a 40 percent cut,” Love said. “I was promised that the script wouldn’t change, except in as much as was necessary to take account of social and cultural differences.” This time, however, his contract
was a bit different. “My new contract, unlike the previous one, was now many pages longer and full of strangulated legalese,” Love explained. “I suspect that by this point SF were already in the mix, probably as co-producers.” The new contract stipulated that Love would receive a total of £15,000 in three instalments of £5,000, to be paid on the first day of shooting, the last day, and on completion of the edit. However, Love says he has only received £5,000, and that was only after relentless pestering. “Still to this day, that’s been the only payment I have ever received for the nearly five years of work that I spent on
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City Hall makes plans to spend excess money
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GE SCHO
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and for life
Denmark’s only English-language newspaper | cphpost.dk JUSTIN CREMER
NEWS
Average waiting time for citizenship has exploded to well over 400 days under new government
3
NEWS
“I felt in danger” Danish citizen recently returned from the Central African Republic recounts his harrowing experience
7 COMMUNITY
Still locked out Meet the rebels from Somerset whose cider rebellion might end up toppling the Somersby empire
13
BUSINESS
As lockout prepares to enter its third week, we spoke to teachers at Copenhagen International School
No love lost between screenwriter and film producer
Off-field losses
JESSICA HANLEY & SIGRID NEERGAARD
Three quarters of the Superliga clubs are in the red, although the situation is not unique to Denmark
Scottish writer of ‘Det Grå Guld’ claims he has only been partially paid for his work
15
9 771398 100009
Price: 25 DKK
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MAGINE you’re selling a car. To someone you trust. They give you their word and you give them the keys, which they promptly pass on to a third party who you don’t know and who won’t acknowledge you as the owner. This is what happened to Jon Love, but it was a film script, not a car. The movie in question is ‘Det Grå Guld’, which was released by SF Film at cinemas across the country on March 27. The Scottish screenwriter claims that
he has not been properly paid for his work, receiving just a third of the agreed £15,000 fee, but he concedes that the situation is complicated. “At least morally, I am the owner of that script,” he told The Copenhagen Post. Love, who lives and works in Glasgow, originally developed the script, entitled ‘Harvey and Joan’, through a script development programme run by the Danish Film Institute. He said he was introduced to Søren Juul Petersen, the owner of the Zeitgeist film company, during the programme, who offered to pick up the script. “Petersen initially offered me £25,000, and the whole thing was wrapped up in a one-and-a-half page contract,” Love said. Petersen then set about raising the
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necessary production funds while Love developed the script, he explained. The intent, he said, was to shoot the film in Scotland with Scottish actors under a Danish director. But soon after, Petersen dropped the project, citing an inability to raise funds. Six months later, Love said, Petersen contacted him to say that the film could proceed – only if Love agreed to the film being translated into Danish, as well as an 80 percent pay cut. “I wasn’t happy, but really wanted the film to be made, so I eventually agreed to a 40 percent cut,” Love said. “I was promised that the script wouldn’t change, except in as much as was necessary to take account of social and cultural differences.” This time, however, his contract
was a bit different. “My new contract, unlike the previous one, was now many pages longer and full of strangulated legalese,” Love explained. “I suspect that by this point SF were already in the mix, probably as co-producers.” The new contract stipulated that Love would receive a total of £15,000 in three instalments of £5,000, to be paid on the first day of shooting, the last day, and on completion of the edit. However, Love says he has only received £5,000, and that was only after relentless pestering. “Still to this day, that’s been the only payment I have ever received for the nearly five years of work that I spent on
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