screenplay challenges : from life and books to treatments and graphic novels
YEAR 1191. BAUDOLINO PILGRIMAGE TO THE UNIVERSAL HARMONY REALM SCREENPLAY BASED ON UMBERTO ECO'S NOVEL "BAUDOLINO" WRITTEN BY VLAD VASILESCU LOGLINE Grateful to his adoptive father, Frederick Barbarossa, Baudolino attempts to foster an alliance with the mighty king of an elusive, harmonious Realm. At its border, he turns the grim reality into a world of Read More ...
YEAR 1650. BAUDOLINO JOINS THE QUEST FOR THE LONGITUDE METHOD Screenplay by Vlad Vasilescu Based on Umberto Eco's novel "The Island of the Day Before". Logline Pursuing the charms of the wrong woman, Baudolino is blackmailed by Cardinal Mazarin to spy on the British, who are about to test a method for determining longitude at Read More ...
SYNOPSIS In 2067, the world is in turmoil. People fight for rights, countries for resources. A free-spirited CIA agent learns the secret of ending the turmoil at the cost of a dire omen. STORY About to be rejuvenated from 70 to 30, Auntie wants her aging parrot to be rejuvenated, as well. She asks Baudolino, Read More ...
Mulaget and Nukilar Use Mother Nature (Check the challenges of writing this movie script) Synopsis. There are crooks, crooked minds, and evil people behaving like viruses, spreading and feeding on a tolerant society-the juicy host. The association of such people fuels a virulence that could damage society on a large scale. And while such viruses evolve Read More ...
THE FAITH OF WEI SHENG Adaptation from Ryunosuke Akutagawa by Vlad Vasilescu CREDITS MUSIC: "Faith" soundtrack theme. INTRODUCTION A Manga cover page, blue color with silver Buddhist border motifs, "The Faith of Wei Sheng" title and "Ryunosuke Akutagawa" author. The cover page opens to reveal the accordion binding style and the first two folding pages. Read More ...
As the movie TRILOGY idea takes shape, I randomly think about having some story boards as well. They look like graphic books. Wait a minute, graphic books is what I just thought about? How about if I actually turn the treatments into graphic books first, and if the appeal is there (i.e. someone acquiring the Read More ...
How does the graphic artist render Valvolino character such that it is similar throughout the trilogy's reincarnations? Oh well, that's just one of the talent traits of my graphic designer partner. Generally, a movie appeal hinges on the characters, actions or ideally both. The appeal of the shorter graphic novel form hinges on characters' Read More ...
Baudolino adaptation expectedly starts with re-reading the book twice, the first time to validate the trilogy assumption, the second to color mark the pages for action, dialogue and whatever I anticipate to show as dreams and flash-backs. The dreams are necessary to highlight motivation, the flash-backs to avoid interrupting scenes that have to be in Read More ...
Two years after reading The Island of the Day Before for the first time, I started reading it again to select the script scenes; I was finally embarking on the journey of writing the adaptation. The "visions" re-merged and I was turning them into the legacy elements of a movie script. The initial idea was Read More ...
More than ten years ago I've discovered Tom Robbins' books and most of them triggered fun "visions", so full of awkward situations and fantasies. Only after the recent trilogy idea, I had embarked on writing the "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates" movie adaptation; it seemed to fall in line with the progression of the Read More ...
The idea of the TOLERANCE movie came after the 2001 terrorist attack on New York’s World Trade Center towers. The treatment journey, from idea to submitting it to a critic and registering it to the Writers Guild of America, took four years. Extensive ethnic, scientific, and media research sources helped in maintaining a fair connection between Read More ...