Current Script-Collab – Horror/Thriller with Swedish writer Jan
The collaboration with Jan Adolfsson has now started in the sense that we’ve stopped sending long emails with act breakdowns and scene suggestions back and forth and set off Jan on the writing process. In fact he was so eager to get started on the re-write, that inspired us both to get to this point much earlier, than at least I personally had expected. I hope this reflects on the quality and potential of our new ideas and additions. Time will tell.
During the process so far we’ve managed well, to enhance what was there to begin with, but also adding new twists and drive in the story, mainly by turning up the heat a bit on the ingredients that Jan had already written.
We’ve agreed on a few main plot points though the story, while some parts in between are slightly more open and subject to how the story writes itself. We have also made a plan on how to conduct the work and in what portions Jan will show what he’s written so far, but also a few rules on how and what we’re allowed to change as we go, not to end up covering the same few pages over and over in some misdirected attempt to achieve perfection to early.
Afghan Gold “Behind The Scenes” Feature Doc
In the meantime I’ve been hammering away on the script and Voice Over of our Afghan treasure hunt feature doc. It’s not as easy as it seems. While I have an abundance of ideas, thoughts and memories, they mostly tell stories that were never filmed, since they’re “behind the scenes”. Thus, what I write doesn’t always mirror the edited scenes we’ve got so far. There is a huge editing job waiting, but mainly the task at hand is to structure and find our angle in this feature of the film, which will differ hugely from the various TV versions of the same material; namely ZDF’s German Version (screening 1 May) and the FIVE UK one which screened previously.
Our main objective in this film so far is to tell the story of exactly how crazy it is for an independent film company of 3 people to head off to Afghanistan without insurances and security convoys, to shoot a documentary which demands crisscrossing the country unhampered by the current situation. This story strand will be mixed with a real story of Tahir Shah, visiting his magical homeland for the first time, after having waited his whole 39 year life for an opportunity to do so, a break in the weather, as he puts it.
Buddhist Cave Complex, Galleries carved deep inside the mountain.
But doing this, while looking for the treasure of the country’s first King Ahmad Shah Durrani, both brings him right inside the very foundations of the country’s underbelly, at the same time as it poses some very hard questions to answer.
Chained to the desk as they say… I keep writing.
