News: Whiplash Film Script Commissioned
The National Film and Video Foundation have commissioned me to write Whiplash as a film script. I have a truly gifted script editor, Justine Loots, and am digging under the verbiage of the novel to find the bare bones. From here I’ll dress it in an entirely visual story. It is a strange, thrilling luxury to work more with images than words. This is my second film script, so I anticipate the surprising, manic momentum of the visual imagination. It’s like whipping aside a curtain in the mind and watching the possibilities play out in a certain quality of light. It is so different to novel writing, which seems so much more auditory to me. I’m busy punching out a Major Turning Points document. If there are any experienced feature directors or producers out there who are interested in the film adaptation, please contact my new literary agent, Maire Fisher at info@livewriting.co.za, 021-7820303
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