tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070152622172052592.post1582183155229996398..comments2023-07-30T08:46:45.953-05:00Comments on Unfilmable.com: Updated: Forthcoming Terrors: Will Ligotti Frolic again...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070152622172052592.post-6698942746836745142009-04-16T06:28:00.000-05:002009-04-16T06:28:00.000-05:00Well, it's always nice to see your screenplays men...Well, it's always nice to see your screenplays mentioned under the heading "Unfilmable". I hope it's in the "too brilliant for the masses" sense and not the "total crap that nobody would finance" sense.<br /><br />I would agree that most of the projects named here are dead, in that many of them were never really alive to begin with. The screenplays Tom and I wrote together range from painfully amateurish (because we were amateurs when we wrote them) to cool but odd (which isn't a good combination from a studio's point of view). Several of them we probably wouldn't want made as they currently exist even if they were greenlit today--they kind of suck and we know it, so we'd want to rewrite them from scratch.<br /><br />All that said, a project can go from stone dead to in-production overnight. All it takes is the right kind of attention.<br /><br />I'd say the best chances for a Ligotti adaptation being made are:<br /><br />1. An ultra-low-budget adaptation of a non-Nightmare Factory story. (Tom gets requests from filmmakers all the time, and typically is very generous about allowing them to adapt anything of his the rights for which aren't locked up elsewhere.)<br /><br />2. A "Frolic" feature. (Since we already have a producer, a director, a star and a short film to serve as an advertisement for a longer version. There is no script at this time.)<br /><br />3. A Fox-produced adaptation of a Nightmare Factory story. (Fox owns the rights to the vast majority of Tom's stories, and has expressed interest in big-screen adaptations. To my knowledge there are no specific plans in the works. What I've seen in the graphic novels seems to approach Tom's stories very literally, which tends to highlight the less-cinematic elements of his stories, so it's possible they haven't fully grasped the potential of the catalog they control. Then again, they might already be in pre-production on several adaptations as we speak. Who knows?)<br /><br />4. "The Strange Adventures of T.R. Ligotti". (Ron Howard: call me!)<br /><br />--BTBrandon Trenznoreply@blogger.com