I do think your idea re: Drew buying him up as part of an acquisition a la the right-wing Ellisons is great. It's just an issue of how to weave any kind of film or TV job into the main canvas of a soap opera not set in LA or NY. Maybe Dillon makes edgy films or TV locally, like some boutique directors in their cities or hometowns, and you can weave it in and out of story from time to time. OLTL made Fraternity Row work for years and Erica(?) and Tad had their talk shows on AMC, etc. so it's not impossible to do in a deft way.
It doesn't need to be a big deal and Dillon wasn't even a favorite of mine; I just would hate to see a unique job whittled down to another disposable hunk working at ELQ or being a photographer or whatever. So it becomes a unique challenge to puzzle out. I think ultimately you'd have to treat it similar to how some soap characters (like Felicia Gallant, etc.) were novelists. Always working on some new thing, mostly in the background but sometimes in key story.
...Hell, maybe Dillon's dream project out in the Far East or wherever went sideways (a la Apocalypse Now), he got in trouble with the wrong shady investors and Drew manages to buttonhole him into writing and directing an ego-boosting biopic about his days as a Navy SEAL: "The Drew Quartermaine Story." Starring Mark Wahlberg, naturally (or David Vickers)
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