Ho's Ho's Ho's....

Happy Ho-lidays...

Finally read the short from my Paramount guy.

He sent me the story while I was in China. This guy won't give up on me yet.

He has more faith in me than my agents - who won't talk to me right now. I'm sure the second I have something going - or a wiff of something going - I'll be hearing from them weekly again. But for now they stay silent.

But the story was good. Real good.

A ghost story. Or ghost-like story. It has lots of interesting elements in it. Mostly things that work really well in a story but not in a movie. An interesting premise and a nice ending - although its one we've seen quite a bit of in the past couple years.

But its interesting to note that what sometimes takes place in a story just can't work in a film. Especially a horror - or type of horror - film. In a short story - you can get away with all sorts of vagueness and loose ends that never work in a film. People want A to B logic - and things that are set up - pay off.

In horror - we want to know that the guilty are punished - and the innocent survive. We want to know that even though at this minute - chaos in the universe is unleased - that there is a reason why this is happening - and if we can figure it out - things will return to normal. That when the film is over - we have escaped the terror - even if only momentarily.

The story inspires a lot of thoughts and ideas. But to make a film - the telling would have to stray far from the source material. I don't know if that's good or bad - but its the only way I would know to do it.

Still making notes and gaging reactions. Will have to see where those things lead me.

On a happier note - kicked out 5 pages yesterday. Even though it was at 2 in the morning - it felt nice. I'm trying to enjoy my last few days before all comes crashing down as I head back to the Bay City next week.

Till then - back to the corner for me. Gots to make my paper....