I’m going to gather up some of my posts in chronological order about Tenebrous and re-post them here for everyone to read, then include some hindsight material, with close to year behind me.

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

It has taken almost 11 years of my life, but it has finally happened. A screenplay I wrote is now in the middle of pre-production here. I can now safely talk about this after getting permission from the producers. As I write this, it is being submitted to IMDB as well.

And so it begins. The last month of my life has been surreal, busy, tiring, and fun, all rolled into one. Imagine feeling all of those things at the same time. That comes close to describing it.

I have been working closely with the director on the rewrites for the production script, which will be locked down by the end of the week. A web site devoted to the film will also be up soon, but I will also post my own thoughts and feelings as I get the time here.

The cast assembled for this astounds me. The special makeup f/x guy, an Academy Award nominee, said this was one of the best scripts he had ever read. I am truly humbled and honored to be working with such a great group of people.

I will post more here in a little while as more information is vetted and made public.

Did I mention I drove a movie star around in my car today? Surreal…

In hindsight…

Yeah, it was a bit surreal. I was a little starstruck, didn’t know some of the process all that well, and it was something new and exciting. As far as the “vetting of information”, there wasn’t much I couldn’t talk about because I was also a producer (although that part didn’t come into play until later.) Common sense told me what I could and couldn’t do, so that played out later.

Locking down the production script took a bit longer than to the end of that week. We were doing some scene-specific rewrites right up to the end of pre-production, mostly coming from the director and as locations were locked down. We were very lucky that most of the places I wrote about actually existed, and they were more than happy to let us use them for filming.

Stay tuned for more…

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Devin and other professional writers teach at 4screenwriters Institute.

When Chris set up this blog and asked me about posting to it, I honestly couldn’t come up with anything for a few days about what to say. A writer, with nothing to say? That’s anathema!

Don’t worry, I got over it. I thought about all of the various topics I’d discuss on here, and I think I’ve got enough material to keep you guys and gals out there in Screenwriterland (a small country bordering Belgium) occupied for awhile. I have quite a few blog posts from my old blog that I’ll put up here first regarding Tenebrous while it was shooting and comment further about those events with hindsight well in play.

So for now, I’ll sign off by saying hello and stay tuned for more. More about Devin…