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I have a novel that I am told would make a great movie - anyone interested please let me know and i'll forward the synopsis

9 years, 6 months ago - Philip Caine

Novel synopsis available for any interested director / producer / screenwriter

(I am also in the process of writing the sequel )

cheers
phil........

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9 years, 6 months ago - Marlom Tander

Have you tried writing a screenplay?

It might not be the greatest script, but it will be a good exercise in working out what you think needs to be kept, junked, changed, which will be good if you are then working with a screenwriter.

Of course when the novel is published you could just sell the rights, and very carefully NOT watch the film :-)

One idea - read Layer Cake then watch the film. It's unusual in that the novelist also wrote the screenplay, and you can see what decisions he took to cope with the change of medium.

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9 years, 6 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

Congratulations on the novel :-) Who suggested it would make a good movie? Someone who'd be prepared to back the project financially? Are there good sales on Amazon? These are all first steps, as they help establish the size of the market. And as you will know, the market drives the sector!

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9 years, 6 months ago - Philip Caine

Hi Paddy

Writing the novel was great fun and came quite easily - working on marketing and promoting the book is a whole new ball game . Since publishing in July, I have had in excess of 400 downloads for Kindle - with almost 100 print on demand.
I have sold over 300 paperback in the last 4 months through self promoting and undertaking author events in Cumbria & Lancashire libraries, Waterstones stores and social groups (The WI and the Rotary ) - all very low-tech but great fun.
I have had a few write-ups in the papers where I have held gigs.
The people who have read the book say how visual it is and how it would make a good movie (?)
I am half way through the sequel.
My website gives background bio if your interested sir.

I am 100% new to the area of movies (other than watching them) and have no contacts in the industry whatsoever.
This was the reason I joined SP to get some advice and if possible find someone to work with - with a view to progressing to a project.

response is a bit long winded but there you go !

Phil...........
http://philcaine777.wix.com/philipcaine

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9 years, 6 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

My hunch, use your kindle and on demand sales to interest a publisher, shift some quantity, then you'll find a book deal worth discussing. What you'll do is sell a lot of copies then sell an option on the story rights, from then on, you're up in the deal. The person who bought the rights option then tries to raise finance - she or he will point to the sales figures of the book and use them to convince investors to take a chance on the grounds that x,000 people bought and loved the book. Making movies is painfully expensive (you can hit a million quid without much fanciness. You can stream past £5M if the script requires a lot of fancy bits. Every single pound, though, is a pound someone wants back with interest, so they're always looking at how to reduce the risk, and book sales are important in that :)

'Very visual' writing can translate to somewhat expensive film, words that are free on the page are terrifyingly expensive if you have to shoot them. For instance, I was recently asked to read a script which had many, many fundamental flaws, but one in particular was indicative of this scenario. The writer had a 60 second montage of 10 shots. Those shots included splintering and sinking a wooden ship, and burning down of a cottage. Each for approximately 6 seconds of screen time, each costing hundreds of thousands of pounds to shoot. Visually great, but those words are so much cheaper in the imagination than on screen!

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9 years, 6 months ago - James Lingwood

Hi Paddy. Yes, please send me the synopsis. jrlingwood@bigpond.com
Many thanks,
Best,
James

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9 years, 6 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

James, that's probably meant for Philip as opposed to me? :)

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