| How would you deal with this controlling person?

Lisa M asked:

I am a screenwriter and I am dealing with a producer who is so, so controlling and manipulative. I am grateful for this opportunity and I am continuing with the work such as re-writes, etc. but this woman is driving me nuts! She hired a team to help produce a demo dvd of my screenplay; a writer for the treatment (getting paid $200 plus first right of refusal of the script if produced), a composer to compose music from the treatment (getting paid $1500 USD for the dvd only and first right of refusal for the film), and the producer herself who I am paying $2500 USD plus airfair, hotel accomodations, and expenses at the Cannes Film Festival and first right of refusal for the film. The entire ‘team’ had a chat a couple weeks ago, but only 3 people could get into the chat at a time, so the composer chatted with the producer and the writer first, then the composer left the chat to let me in….finally. When I got into the chat, I brought up an error that the writer made on the title of a character. I have maintained that the character is a foreign minister as opposed to the Prime Minister which the writer mistakenly named him as in the treatment. In all my versions of the script (which the producer has) I referred to the character as either ‘minister’ or ‘foreign minister’ and I tried to point that out but the writer retorted, ‘Oh a little research can fix that’. I replied, ‘Well I have worked on this for 4 years and I have done the research and he is not the prime minister but a minister.’. This wirter has a fairly large ego, to say the least. In almost every correspondence with him he feels the need to add in how many people were at his auditions and who he’s writing for at the moment, etc. Perhaps I’m a bit jealous, but if he was so great why would he need to brag so much? But I digress, the producer then said that perhaps I ‘missed a word’ implying that even after 4 years I don’t know the history of the story. (It’s based on true events). Anyway, I later told her that the writer messed up the treatment so badly that the composer couldn’t tell what was going on. She blamed his confusion on my script and not the inaccurate and careless treatment of the writer! Meanwhile the composer admitted that it was the treatment of the other writer that threw him off. The producer is getting everyone, including the composer (go figure), to offer suggestions for the script, which I am grateful for, but 80% of them are already touched on in the script. What can I do? I am paying these people big money and I feel left behind in the dust.
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