![]() ![]() The producers have been looking at locations and talking to a number of potential financiers and they’ve got some serious interest. We now have a first script by Jack Thorne which is being read by selected A-list directors. Just in case I think I’ve dreamed the whole thing! I had it framed and it’s the first thing I see when I wake up in the morning. After he’d read the manuscript he was having a phone conversation with his producer about it and, while they were talking, he made a sketch of Saba and Emmi leaving their burning home at Silverlake. Ridley Scott trained as a graphic artist and does all his own storyboards for his films. I actually had a meeting with him! It was the most surreal experience of my life sitting next to the director of Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise and Gladiator – among my favourite films – and chatting about our mutual love of The Wind in the Willows. Ridley Scott’s London production company, Scott Free UK, purchased the option to develop it early on a year before the book was published. The Blood Red Road film is currently in the works. ![]()
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