My feature screenplay, DARK HAVEN, now filming...
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And for your reading pleasure...
"A rollicking, sexy ride through the Hollywood maze."
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My journey from script to award-winning short horror film...
Never give up, never say never...
DARK HAVEN is a screenplay I wrote 20 years ago. Since
then it's been optioned a handful of times, edged close to production three
times and has sat dormant on the shelf for a number of years.
But now,
finally, contracts have been signed, tweaks to the script executed, and -- I'm
quite pleased to say -- filming will commence today (September 16, 2020)!
Will the finished movie be any good? Your guess is as good
as mine -- but at least I don't have to think about this one any longer!
But the takeaway here is this...
If you think you have a great script, stick with it. One day
it'll pay off.
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Check out my new e-book!
And if you like novels about Hollywood and screenwriters,
you'll want to check out Luigi's Chinese Delicatessen!
If you like novels about screenwriters in Hollywood (and c'mon, you know you do)...
Hollywood...
It wasn’t what I
expected.
It seemed every
other building along the boulevard contained a head shop, tattoo parlor, dive
bar, or outlet for worthless, plastic souvenirs and T-shirts that boasted
bullshit such as, “MY PARENTS WENT TO HOLLYWOOD AND ALL THEY GOT ME WAS THIS
LOUSY T-SHIRT.” Sure, there were pockets of glitz and glamour here and there,
but mostly it was a trash heap. The boulevard itself is embedded with grimy
salmon-colored and gold-embossed stars that boast the names of the currently
known, the long-forgotten, and everyone in between.
This was Hollywood?
Then there were the
people. The outcasts, the forgotten, the ignored. The angry young men and
women—once bolstered by a dream but now dazed by a hard life—struggling against
poverty, drugs, booze, madness, and railing mightily against whatever it was
Mommy or Daddy or Uncle Joe supposedly did to them once upon a time. They
populated Hollywood Boulevard and the surrounding area like cockroaches on a
grease-encrusted sewer pipe.
(Excerpt from Luigi's Chinese Delicatessen,
a novel by Jim Vines)
(Photo © Jim Vines
Luigi's Chinese Delicatessen is available
in paperback and e-book, from Amazon!
My first movie...
My first produced movie, The Perfect Tenant, was released in 2000.
It did very well on the cable TV circuit, broadcast TV, and played all over the world (happily, I received foreign royalty payments from the WGA).
It ain't exactly Alfred Hitchcock -- but it's a fairly diverting 93 minutes.
Hope you enjoy it!
To watch The Perfect Tenant, click here.
A Beast is Born!: A Screenwriter's Journey from Script to Award-winning Short Film,
by Jim Vines
Get your e-book here!
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