Nine weeks until production begins, and they're still working on getting a budget. Rona comes to visit them in New York for a face-to-face meeting and unfortunately, he's just not ready to commit more than three million dollars. Leahy thinks it's impossible. "We aren't going to spend five million dollars on this movie," Rona tells them how it is for this film. Dimension is not ready to commit to the project for many factors. Gulager is up for the challenge, even if nobody has the confidence in him to do it. "In the past, Dimension has stepped up," Leahy explains, keeping his hopes up.

Chris Moore and Gulager go out to lunch for the day. "I was taking him to lunch to really try to convince him to share his vision with the rest of the people in the movie," Moore advises him. "Figuring how to talk in a group is a skill," he says, and he offers to help Gulager learn the skills to talk in a group. He wants to help him in any way he can, and he lets John knows this. "That is not good for the marketing of the movie," Moore says of the nepotism involved. "I'm still the contest guy," Gulager laughs. "I want to be the first guy who makes movie on Project Greenlight."

With eight weeks to go, and another draft of the script, Rona calls in to discuss it. "The more he knows the vision, the more money we'll get," Leahy notes. Rona was advised to watch some movies by Melton and Dunstan, and he did, which gave him more of vision of what the film will be. Gulager even takes part, gaining some confidence, and talking to Rona about the film. "I got my balls busted in the last meeting," John says. This meeting, however, he steps up to the plate and shows he can lead. All the producers are smiling, and it's a much better view of them and their confidence in him as a director, a contrast to the last meeting with Rona on the speakerphone. "Right now, John Gulager isn't the concern of Andrew Rona," Leahy says.

Now, we're done to seven weeks until shooting begins, and they're still working on casting. They are working on picking a Director of Photography and Production Designer, along with a First Assistant Director. He has to go around and interview a bunch of people to find the best people to work with him on his vision for Feast. Casting is still up in the air, though.

"I'm not sure John and Michelle are clicking. They have very different approaches," Leahy explains. John believes Michelle has already casted the film behind his back, without his approval, and he's a bit upset about it. He still wants his family in it, despite the misgivings of the entire cast. "They should just run everything by me before contacting someone," he says, "They just don't do that."

"I sort of get John," Michelle explains, "I'm giving him as much information as he can take." She tells her assistant to give him anything he wants, to inundate him as much as possible so that he possibly gets it.