Well, I followed Nick's instructions up above, and the submission email bounced back to me, so I'm posting this here. Personally, I'm n
ot sure it's enough of a thing to get posted on the site, anyways, as it's only mere possibility of a movie getting made.
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John Steakley is...not fond of Hollywood.
The author of Armor and Vampire$ started his writing career as a script doctor and a screenwriter. He wrote a half dozen scripts a while back, sold all of them, but none of them managed to get made. He doctored some major scripts, but, like a ghostwriter, he's not supposed to talk about them, and this man, long on Texas charm, honors his word, no matter what he thinks of the folks he gave it to. After a few years of never seeing any of his scripts getting made, and watching what Hollywood is like ("There are some very nice people there...but they are few and far between."), he decided to pack it up and head home, and wound up writing Armor, a science fiction classic that's been in print for two decades.
His followup novel was a horror piece about vampire hunters called Vampire$; the film rights were eventually sold to John Carpenter. Now, for those of you who saw the flick but never read the book, well...let's just say that the adaption was fairly accurate (with the exception of replacing a rather cool main character with whatever the Baldwin was supposed to be) for the first 15 mins or so. So, in other words, it was a very...loose adaptaion. But Steakley was having a great time on the set, regardless, because he was getting the chance to watch the film being made.
That is, until he wrote 9 extra scenes at the actors' request, and John Carpenter had an assistant toss him off the set. Once again, Steakley got a bitter taste in his mouth when dealing with Hollywood. Worse, he couldn't turn Vampire$ into a series of books, because he didn't own the characters anymore.
So he's written a screenplay about werewolves, which he feels is more in line with what the Vampire$ movie should have been. This was revealed at a screenwriting panel at a recent literary convention; he wouldn't reveal any more than this, and bear one thing in mind...just because he has a screenplay, doesn't mean a movie's being made. He's going to be real careful, this time around. But just the fact that the man has a werewolf script out there is just so damn....cool.
On a side note, he's currently working on the text for Armor 2.
ot sure it's enough of a thing to get posted on the site, anyways, as it's only mere possibility of a movie getting made.
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John Steakley is...not fond of Hollywood.
The author of Armor and Vampire$ started his writing career as a script doctor and a screenwriter. He wrote a half dozen scripts a while back, sold all of them, but none of them managed to get made. He doctored some major scripts, but, like a ghostwriter, he's not supposed to talk about them, and this man, long on Texas charm, honors his word, no matter what he thinks of the folks he gave it to. After a few years of never seeing any of his scripts getting made, and watching what Hollywood is like ("There are some very nice people there...but they are few and far between."), he decided to pack it up and head home, and wound up writing Armor, a science fiction classic that's been in print for two decades.
His followup novel was a horror piece about vampire hunters called Vampire$; the film rights were eventually sold to John Carpenter. Now, for those of you who saw the flick but never read the book, well...let's just say that the adaption was fairly accurate (with the exception of replacing a rather cool main character with whatever the Baldwin was supposed to be) for the first 15 mins or so. So, in other words, it was a very...loose adaptaion. But Steakley was having a great time on the set, regardless, because he was getting the chance to watch the film being made.
That is, until he wrote 9 extra scenes at the actors' request, and John Carpenter had an assistant toss him off the set. Once again, Steakley got a bitter taste in his mouth when dealing with Hollywood. Worse, he couldn't turn Vampire$ into a series of books, because he didn't own the characters anymore.
So he's written a screenplay about werewolves, which he feels is more in line with what the Vampire$ movie should have been. This was revealed at a screenwriting panel at a recent literary convention; he wouldn't reveal any more than this, and bear one thing in mind...just because he has a screenplay, doesn't mean a movie's being made. He's going to be real careful, this time around. But just the fact that the man has a werewolf script out there is just so damn....cool.
On a side note, he's currently working on the text for Armor 2.
