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[edit] un-sourced speculation from article removed
The movie has had only a limited release, but has developed a small, but devoted, cult following. The origins of the script are obscure and controversial. Legend has it that the screenwriter came up with the idea for the script during a lull in a Magic tournament, after already having gone without sleep for several days, and immediately went to a 7-Eleven, bought a package of BICs and a notebook, and wrote the first draft of the script in one (very long) go. Supposedly, he and the director met by chance at a bus stop (the director's car was in the shop). The screenwriter had already cold called dozens of people to try to get them interested in the script, all of whom had hung up on him, and was on the verge of giving up when he met Daniel. It turns out that the director was on the wrong side of the street, and if he had been on the correct side, he never would have heard about the script.
