Great Moments In Development: Chasing The Balloon Boy

"Meanwhile the whole world is wondering if he's OK in the balloon, they're all worried about him, but they lose it in some clouds, they fear the worst."

"But he's hanging out with the talking pandas, having a great time."

"But eventually he learns enough about love and family and imagination that he's ready to get back into the balloon and fly back to his old life."

"Where his parents realize they maybe should encourage the imagination. And not get all shouty on him for being a kid."

"He's just a kid!"

"And he's telling them all about the talking pandas, and they're all 'Here we go again, with the stories and the imagination and the pandas."

"And they think he made it all up. And maybe then we think maybe he made it all up."

"I mean, talking pandas, he might've made that up. He's got an imagination on him."

"But then they put him to bed. And he pulls out a sprig of eucalyptus the pandas gave him, and he puts it under his pillow."

"Because where the f*ck would he get eucalyptus if it didn't really happen? Is the eucalyptus magic? Like, he can wave it and then a big tinfoil balloon will float up to his window and take him back to the pandas any time he needs them?"

"I think he just puts it under his pillow. So there's a question, even though we know."

"But we shoot him waving the sprig and the balloon coming to his window. We run it after the end credits. So they know we're going back to Talking Panda Island in two summers. After we make 400 mil worldwide."

"Yes, more pandas, 2012."

"Universal can eat my ass. This is ours."

"This is so ours."

"When's the plane landing?"

"An hour."

"Can we send a hot-air balloon to pick them up?"

"I dunno, too much?"

"Fine. But I want this office filled with tinfoil balloons with falcons on them. Now."

"Done."

"And ten stuffed pandas."

"Welcome to Talking Panda Island, Balloon Boy."

"This so ours."

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