I think this is how most people make it. Start out with small festivals or shorts and keep writing what you feel. He probably still got paid, but just can't get a production bonus or rewrite fees.

I'm sure he's in the financial position to finish the other things he's working on.

It's one of my favourite scripts I've read. The fact that it's all made up is almost secondary, it's more about the loss the world felt, and it captures that feeling perfectly. Great ending.

I read it about six months back, possibly one of the first I'd read on pariah-of-the-week Carson Reeves site.

It was an adequate read, nothing more. I think perhaps what he nailed was the ending, which was quite touching, not so much because of what came before but because of the natural emotional connection folks of my generation have with the Muppets.

Either way, he certainly followed a rather tried and true screenwriting tenet... you can have a troubled act 1 and 2, but if you wow 'em in the end, people won't notice.

Wow... perhaps I SHOULD finish my biopic script of Dr. Gene Scott, "God's angry man." Lord knows, it would get me noticed... however, it could also bring about my eventual assassination by one of his loopy followers.

@Jeff - wow, Dr. Gene Scott. When I read that name, a face came to mind. A google search confirmed that that's who I thought you were talking about. I remember seeing him on tv back in the day when I was channel surfing between music video shows (guess this was before MTV or we had cable...long time ago). What a character. Research must have been interesting on him.