✍️ Writer’s Quotes to Live By
“To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.”
— Alan Moore
Quentin Tarantino: Screenwriter Turned Novelist???!!!
It has come to our attention here at RSF, that Pulp Fiction legend Quentin Tarantino, a man who has continuously claimed that he’s retiring from filmmaking, has actually been gearing for his next genre of storytelling, while he has secretly been writing his first body of fiction. In a new interview with Martin Scorsese, Tarantino reveals he’s currently in the process of writing a book about a subject near and dear to his heart… movies. The reported novel follows a WWII Vet who has an interest of cinema awakened by foreign films.
You can read the entire interview between the two here:
Is ‘Clerks 3’ from Kevin Smith Ever Reporting for Work?
Come hell or high water, Kevin Smith will finish the ‘CLERKS’ trilogy. After many failed attempts at raising funding, shooting being nixed, etc., Kevin has assured the fans that now is the time the trilogy will be completed. Smith announced in an Instagram post that he’s writing a new screenplay for the film, and even better, has patched his broken relationship with the film’s original stars, Brian O’Halloran and Jeff Anderson.
Smith said this go around he’ll be writing the screenplay along with Jeff Anderson, starting the script over, and providing a fresh take on the old idea.
“It’ll be a movie that concludes a saga. It’ll be a movie about how you’re never too old to completely change your life. It’ll be a movie about how a decades-spanning friendship finally confronts the future. It’ll be a movie that brings us back to the beginning – a return to the cradle of civilization in the great state of #newjersey,” Smith wrote.
The original “Clerks” was Smith’s debut film and became an indie cult classic comedy. Smith followed it up with “Clerks 2” in 2006.
Are you excited for the upcoming sequel?
Indie Film Distribution Company ‘Distribber’ Dead
If you’ve ever looked into independent film distribution, chances are you’ve heard of Distribber, a start up aggregator that sends your uploaded film, and marketing materials to various VOD platforms (Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, and the like). Just as it has great stories of successful distribution (The Resurrection of Jake the Snake Hit No. 1 on iTunes using Distribber), the once thriving company is now non-existent. With its disappearance, Distribber has left many filmmakers royalties, dues, and payments tied up in a cacophony of legal mirk and mire.
Distribber has shut down their office, and have ghosted tons of filmmakers who have not been able to contact or get money that is owed from the business for months.
The unfolding story of why Distribber went down is one of twists and turns, along with stories of backroom deals and courtroom brawls.
In the midst of all this confusion, there is not any information known as to what filmmakers should do regarding the rights, payments or withholdings of their films on the platform.
Ava DuVernay Developing DC Comic "DMZ"
The DMZ comic, from the imaginative minds of Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, are set in a near-future where America is embroiled in a civil war, and follows a medic who is searching for her lost son. (The DMZ of the title refers to the island of Manhattan, which has become a desolate DeMilitarized Zone.) Ms. DuVernay will direct the pilot and produce through her company, Array Filmworks, as part of an overall deal recently inked with Warner Bros TV. Ms. DuVernay was recently Emmy-nominated for directing as well as producing the Netflix Limited Series "When They See Us."
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