remake

Happy holidays.

I've never seen VIOLENT ROAD, but I did see HELL'S DRIVERS which has a great cast with Connery, Hebert Lom, David McCallum and Patrick MacGoohan. Different story but still an interesting variation.

My story from a voice in my head, and I don't normally hear voices. "THE WAGES OF FEAR with women. I stopped and thought that an interesting idea. Why can't women do the job as well as men? I hadn't seen either TWOF or SORCEROR in several years, and I have no idea where the voice came from. I sat down and watched them back to back

It toom about two months to develop the story and the characters. I did not want to do a remake, but I wanted to see what I could do with the basic plot.
NO MORE ROOM IN HELL ran about ninety pages which was too short for a novel and too long for a short story. It's structured like a movie, and I thought why not try to write a screenplay.

That took two years because I didn't know how to write one until I found a computer program. I don't have a very visual sense, but I submitted to film class I was taking and got a B-. I also submitted it to a screenwriting contest in Hollywood, but nobody was interested.

The ssceenplay is a tribute to old movies, actors and directors: Preston Sturges, John Ford, Barry Levinson, Republice serials, Hong Kong Category III films and Italian cannibal films among others. Actors include Allen "Rocky" Lane, Duncan Renaldo and Ralph Tabakin, a friend of mine who appeared in all of Levinson's movies until his death.

My last idea was a combination of THE SANDS OF IWO JIMA, FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, and Ray Harryhausen's JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS.

See you at the movies.