Dialogue is a funny thing… You can take ten people from the same size family, same neighborhood, cultural background, education, social peers, influences and experiences, and ask them to write, separately, the same story. Even something as simple as “a …
A friend of mine once submitted a detailed action screenplay with a blow by blow final fight between protagonist and antagonist only to be told “that’s great, but you’ve crossed into the department of the director and fight choreographer- all …
I read this morning of the untimely and tragic death of Robin Williams. It’s hard to put the thoughts into words on reading this news about a man who inspired so many people in so many ways. Only by looking …
As a script writer, how do you approach the creation of a character given that the character already exists in the source novel? Firstly, address the question from the original author’s point of view: what was the character intended to …
In late 2012 I was approached by a client to create a screenplay from his novel. The challenges of such an enterprise are many, and I will begin to go through the process in the following posts. The first obstacle …
Over a year ago I was approached by a wonderful gentleman to convert his novel into a screenplay. In March 2013 I completed a first draft which, after appraisal by Kathy Harty (Executive Producer at HBO) I worked with the …