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12 years, 10 months ago - Jade Alexander

Hi Guys,
Hope you dont mind, I couldnt help jumping in on this as this is exactly what we are doing, only in theatre.
We picked a whole heap of dark fairytales, poems and songs and created a show out of them.
My favourite is The Tigers Bride by Angela Carter (awesome adaptation of Beauty and the Beast) and we reenact it out in an immersive theatre.
If you're interested come along and see how it could potentially be done!
Also if you want to workshop any fairytale scripts I'd love to help out!
See more details here about the show:
Ex Libris Macabre: A Night of Dark Fairytales
At Theatre Delicatessen.
www.littlejadeproductions.com
We open tonight!
xx

12 years, 9 months ago - Keith Margolis

Hi Ben

I have written an 18 page short film, which is a take on Beauty and the Beast.

Unfortunately, there are no toys to sell.

The twist is that the beast is a brute of a man, with racist inclinations, and seemingly, beyond the pale. While beauty, is a black woman.

Logline:

“Beauty finds her prince in an East London council estate”.

Regards

Keith

12 years, 9 months ago - Ed Griffiths

Sounds like Oliver Reed falling for Nichelle Nicholls (before she played Dorinda in TRUCK TURNER)...

12 years, 10 months ago - Ed Griffiths

Hey Ben, howabout:

STAR DOLLARS: collected by the Brothers Grimm, original title 'Die Sterntaler'.

Starring Michael Ovitz.

A poor orphan boy comes to Hollywood and gives away all his possessions until all the stars fall from the sky, want him to represent them and become magic money in his hands.

Michael Ovitz forms the most powerful talent agency in the world and inherits the Magic Kingdom itself, an adopted prince of its king Michael Eisner The Very Corporate.

Michael O ends his days rich, rich, RIIICCCHHH, with a £90 million king's ransom-style payoff from Disney and the dead career of wicked word wizard Joe Eszterhas as a monument to his power.

12 years, 10 months ago - Cedar D. Wolf

If you want to add a bit of real non-politically-correct kinkiness to the digital Grimmiverse, I can only recommend "Allerleirauh" (literally translated: all kinds of rough; hence "all-kinds-of-fur).
The following tagline springs to mind:
"A widowed king, his beautiful daughter and an unwholesome desire."

Allerleirauh takes us on a girl's epic journey through strange lands and shows us her struggle to shake off the shackles of a male-dominated society, while a desperate man takes desperate actions to ensure the survival of his heridetary line.
It introduces a young princess, whose mother has just died and who dreams of making her own choices on life, when her father needs to hide the fact that her mother, the queen, has passed away. In order to save the kingdom from falling apart he sees his daughter as the only suitable replacement for the wife, he so dearly loved.
Apalled at the thought of marrying her own father, the young princess flees the court and lives among the wild beasts on a forest far far away.
The desperate king sends his most trusted men out to find a woman, who also looks like his queen. Years pass and they return unsuccessful. As he no loger can hide the fact that the queen is missing, he goes in search of a wife himself. Disguised as a hunter he discovers the girl in the forest and she does not recognise him at first. When she discovers that the hunter is her father she sets him several tasks, one of them being the assembly of a coat made from all kinds of fur.
Certain that he will be unsuccessful, the girl feels assured that she will not have to marry her father. When he fulfills all her set tasks, however, she is overcome with love and feels destined to marry him after all.

...uhm, yes.

Something like that, anyway.

Maybe we'll see Billy Bob Thornton as the king and give Miley Cyrus a go as the princess.

Perhaps the fur coat could set a new trend. And a line of semi-erotic novels for the hip teen along with a matching make-up line...

Either way, we should see Steven Berkoff direct this one.