screenplay challenges : from life and books to movie treatments and graphic novels
the reasons, challenges and pleasures of writing scripts.
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 …
How does the graphic artist render Valvolino character such that it is similar throughout the trilogy’s reincarnations? Oh well, that’s just one of the talent traits of my graphic designer partner. Generally, a movie appeal hinges on the characters, actions or ideally both. The appeal of the shorter graphic novel form hinges on characters’ 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 …
The idea of the TOLERANCE movie came after the 2001 terrorist attack on New York’s World Trade Center towers. The treatment journey, from idea to submitting it to a critic and registering it to the Writers Guild of America, took four years. Extensive ethnic, scientific, and media research sources helped in maintaining a fair connection between Read More …