It’s not about failing. It’s about taking the shot.
No matter how much time you work in Hollywood, no matter how big you get, rejection will always be a big part of the business. Even when you get famous, you’re still hearing the rejections at a much higher level.
Take this story from Tom Holland. He recently gave an interview in Total Film (via Games Radar), where he talked about pitching on James Bond.
Holland said, “I had a meeting, after or during Spider-Man 2 [Far From Home], with Sony to pitch this idea of a young Bond film that I’d come up with. It was the origin story of James Bond. It didn’t really make sense. It didn’t work. It was the dream of a young kid, and I don’t think the Bond estate were particularly interested.”
But what came from that failure was getting Tom on Sony’s radar as someone who could be more than just Spider-Man. And it got them thinking of their Uncharted project that was on the shelf. Maybe there was a new way in.
So they went back to the drawing board. What if they brought a younger Tom into the mix to be next to Mark Wahlberg’s character?
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
