2012 looks to be a busy year for Wonderful Films!
The "Disconnect" editorial team is cutting away (a false metaphor these days as all our "footage" really consists of digital bits of data) in preparation for upcoming screenings of the movie for our financier, test audiences and ultimately distributors.
A nerve-wracking process but one I thoroughly enjoy as the ability to "write" a film for the third and final time with the almost infinite ability we have to stretch and reorder and recolor and manipulate the film with music and sound never ceases to fascinate me.
Next up is the upcoming production of "Therese Raquin" which has been adapted by writer/director Charlie Stratton from Emile Zola's prescient, modern and nor-ish 19th century novel of an adulterous-turned-murderous affair in the lower depths of Paris.
Scouting, budgeting and casting are underway, as am I, off to Eastern Europe in search of remnants of Zola's epoch in these post-modern times.
Another favorite script and project I have been laboring on with my partners for years looks like it is almost set to go at the same time, so watch this space for more news, and for my inevitable 19th Nervous Breakdown to quote the song as I struggle to juggle all the various demands of these shows.
Exciting times!
I hope I can keep up the blog posts and don't disappoint you with what I bring back from my travels and experiences to share with you here.
For those of you who have never seen the Marcel Carne version of Therese Raquin from the fifties, with Simone Signoret and Raf Vallone (as I had not until getting involved with this project) it is well worth checking out. In some ways radically different from the book, and therefore quite different from our version which stays true to the 19th century setting, Carne's film is set in the time it was made, the 1950's, and wholly invents a blackmail plot for the third act of the narrative. But it is quite intense and the performances are terrific, two virtues we certainly hope to equal!
Enjoy!
william
Most excellent news to hear on a Monday! Good luck on the screenings, and good hunting in the back alleys of Eastern Europe. (They say Prague, Budapest and Keszthely can be lovely this and any time of year, and have no egos or qualms about standing in for the City of Lights...)
Posted by: John A | January 09, 2012 at 09:51 AM
everything sounds so wonderful for you and your film company in 2012
I might need to plan a little visit to LA to keep elsita company:)
Posted by: margie oomen | January 09, 2012 at 12:37 PM
This will be a wonderful year indeed!
I am loving each one of your projects :)
Posted by: Elsita | January 15, 2012 at 02:33 PM
So great, congrats, I really enjoy to read this
Posted by: price per head | March 19, 2012 at 09:07 AM