screenplay challenges : from life and books to movie treatments and graphic novels
Somalia stands out as the best location for Baudolino’s second CIA mission, after the first one in Peru. In Tom Robbins’s book Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Switters delivers in 1990’s gas masks to kurds fighting in Syria. In my movie adaptation, Somalia had reverted to monarchy since 2041, has lots of rare metal Read More …
First sequence with his aunt and the parrot in the Rejuvenation Room done. In the second, on a CIA mission to Peru, his airplane lands on Lima airport… ….The “Fasten your Seat Belts” sign blinks in the aircraft about to land. Except for the reinforcement trusses, the skin of the aircraft is transparent. Lima downtown Read More …
THE THIRD PART OF THE TRILOGY. Reincarnated in 2067, Baudolino encounters The Pyramid Head who preaches the Universal Consciousness religion. After meeting with him, Baudolino falls in love with a nun, but has to change the way he walks in life or die.
Jumping ahead to the third part of the trilogy… Recently I’ve read Yuval Harari’s “Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind” and watched Reza Aslan’s “The Scientology Reformation”. The happy coincidence gave me more material for who the Pyramid Head Chief will be in 2065. Nowadays, the Pyramid Head is a bloodthirsty comics character. Did the Read More …