You have drafted a producer agreement between your studio and producer George Stevens. After reviewing the deal memo, which was silent on the issue of approval rights, the business affairs executive calls to say “by the way, I gave Stevens approval over selection of the cast, key crew, the director, any future writers, and the shooting script” so add that to the contract and use our normal language.
You draft the following clause (Producer Agreement Clause (Word)) and send it to Stevens’s lawyer.
If you were Stevens’s attorney, what language might you object to in the clause? Why, and on what basis?