Update from the wordforge
Not Yet is being screened at the 2009 Palm Springs ShortFest on Friday, June 26, as part of Tales of the Unexpected. Working with everyone on this film was an absolute pleasure and I’m really glad that it now starting to hit the festival circuit. This also means I have my first credit on IMDB.
Not yet – 30sec Teaser from Tito Sacchi on Vimeo.
I’ve finished a complete draft of the Ionmonger’s Daughter. There is still a long way to go yet, and collaborating with Larry is suggesting new ideas and ways of presenting the story, but I’m pleased with how it is coming together. The draft is now with my editor and a couple of trusted writing friends for their critique.
It has been an interesting journey so far, hopefully one that will do justice to the themes of honour, obsession and war. Finding a way to keep the protagonist in charge of her destiny opposed to becoming just a victim of her circumstances has proved to be the hardest balancing act. It has already taken a lot of planning, plus writing and rewriting to work out how to pull this off.
So, what next? Well, I’m going to step away from the Ionmonger’s Daughter for at least a couple of weeks if not more, apart from collaborating with Larry. In the meantime I’m going to be working on a feature film script with Tito, which was born out of a short film script we had been working on together. A bitter-sweet ghost story, we’ve boiled down all the elements we liked and have mixed them back together with many new ideas and elements to create a new story. In the coming few weeks I’ll be putting these together and writing a first draft. In the background, I’ve also got another graphic novel pitch and horror film script to work on.
And now to plug another Insomnia graphic novel…
Burke And Hare
Writer: Martin Conaghan
Artist: Will Pickering
Letters: Paul McLaren
Cover: Rian Hughes
Foreword: Alan Grant
Over a 12 month period from 1827-1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland, two Irishmen by the names of William Burke and William Hare murdered 16 people and disposed of their bodies to the eminent dissectionist Dr Robert Knox at 10 Surgeon’s Square. Delve into the murky, misquoted history of Scotland’s most notorious serial killers with a research-based graphic novel that unwravels a ghoulish story of medicine, murder and money.
You can pre-order Burke and Hare from Amazon.