What about feature film scripts?

To do something in a 120-page script is another framework and format, and it’s harder for us to unlearn what we know about story in the long form. I often come into these projects with a 180-page script that I have to cut down. It often takes me longer to do. But there are two that I’m actively working on. One is the story of a piano marathon in Scranton in 1970. Two guys, one an alcoholic, tried to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for playing the piano for 45 days straight. That was with Ron Howard at Universal, and it went out to some other writers, and now it’s back with me and Gene Weingarten from the Washington Post. The other one for Paramount is about one of the real life guys who inspired the Omar character in “The Wire” and what brought him out of the cold, because he ended up becoming a cooperator for a major case for Ed [Burns, “The Wire” co-creator], when he was a cop. But I don’t know if those are going to get made.