Do you ever think about one of the novels you have written coming alive on the silver screen with Hollywood elites like Pauly Shore and Lindsay Lohan as the stars and Roseanne Barr in a cameo role as a dumpster fire? What’s that? You haven’t written your novel yet. Well, why the hell not? Write it now. I can vouch for Chicagoland being covered in a thick blanket of snow that won’t be gone until July. There’s nothing else to do but stay inside and write. If you don’t have a novel, maybe you have a novella, short story, or random shapes and pseudo-gibberish scribbled on a napkin. Hollywood is out of ideas these days. As soon as the shooting stops on a film, a remake begins immediately. Your writing is needed.
Well, here’s a screenwriting challenge you may wish to consider.
Click HERE for the link. Am I entering? Nah. I recently turned down a chance to write the screenplay for a major motion picture. Well, maybe not major. But the picture will feature motion. It is a prequel to an existing film.
So, why did I turn it down? What’s the problem? That would be the existing film.
It’s not good, but it was filmed in my hometown of St. Charles, IL, so it was semi-cool for me to watch just for the locale. And it features guys that look like Michael Myers from the Halloween series and Darth Vader as bad guy muscle.
The biggest problem I had was the “hero” of the film. I don’t want to spoil it for you (as if you planned to watch it), but the hero ain’t no hero in the end. I don’t want to write a prequel for that despicable, cowardly character. But like it or not, the filmmaker made a movie which is one more than I ever made. Kudos to him.
So, what are you waiting for? Write something. I now know a filmmaker who could turn it into a Hollywood St. Charles blockbuster.
Jim Flanigan Looks at the World 