screenplay challenges : from life and books to movie treatments and graphic novels
The recent answer is because it’s part of my lifestyle now. I took film studies in Toronto about twenty years ago and wrote fiction scripts for two semesters’ worth of homework. Life brought me to Los Angeles and I hoped to continuing the film studies and turning the plate on engineering, my day job. But Read More …
As the movie TRILOGY idea takes shape, I randomly think about having some story boards as well. They look like graphic books. Wait a minute, graphic books is what I just thought about? How about if I actually turn the treatments into graphic books first, and if the appeal is there (i.e. someone acquiring the Read More …
Baudolino adaptation expectedly starts with re-reading the book twice, the first time to validate the trilogy assumption, the second to color mark the pages for action, dialogue and whatever I anticipate to show as dreams and flash-backs. The dreams are necessary to highlight motivation, the flash-backs to avoid interrupting scenes that have to be in Read More …
Two years after reading The Island of the Day Before for the first time, I started reading it again to select the script scenes; I was finally embarking on the journey of writing the adaptation. The “visions” re-merged and I was turning them into the legacy elements of a movie script. The initial idea was Read More …
More than ten years ago I’ve discovered Tom Robbins’ books and most of them triggered fun “visions”, so full of awkward situations and fantasies. Only after the recent trilogy idea, I had embarked on writing the “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates” movie adaptation; it seemed to fall in line with the progression of the Read More …