Collaborating with a screenwriter on a TV series

I've been composing some themes and underscore to strengthen a screenwriter's pitch for an urban noir/horror tv series. He already has a producer who is interested and is planning to meet with him in person to pitch it. The hope is he'll also play one of my cues.

The screenwriter really wants to work on this tv series in some capacity and is not interested in selling his script.

I haven’t scored a tv series yet, so I'm thinking it would be a good idea to find a collaborator who has experience scoring tv series. From what I've heard, music isn't even considered at this early stage. It might help with the pitch, but my cues will probably be forgotten by the time they actually need music.

Assuming that this project gets the green light, how can I attach myself to this project in these early days? Or will they likely go with their preferred composer no matter what?

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