screenplay challenges : from life and books to movie treatments and graphic novels
In the book, the description of the fight between the Huns and the defenders of Pndapetzim is fun. However, there isn’t much description of the landscape and where the fight happens. In the movie, the Huns are Magogs and the defenders are the “creatures” led by the pilgrims. To describe the fight and its timing, Read More …
Towards the end of Umberto Eco’s book Baudolino, the Huns attack the border of Prester John’s Kingdom. History sources locate the Huns in Central Asia; thus, the Kingdom must have been South of it, probably Ethiopia. One Wikipedia source describes the Huns as having “sort of a shapeless lump, not a head, with pin-holes rather Read More …