Just back from a Meeting with Sony Pictures - Things looking positive

bazalini

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A few will know that I wrote a short story a few years ago, which a certain someone wanted to turn into a film.

Just back from meeting Sony in London (well came in last night) Looks like they are going to take it...

GET THE feck IN
 
feck's sake, baz. is there anything you can't do?

best of luck.

Thanks No shitting here....


A small bit about the bit I wrote -


An 80 year Irish Man comes back to Ireland for his 80th Birthday. On His birthday he decides to walk the 12 miles he walked to school every Sunday. (he went to boarding school and came home every fortnight) He walked it with his 5 brothers for 6 years... (actually a true story as its based on my father and his Uncle)

Films starts with him on Ferry over to Ireland, then wakes up on his Birthday. His Children wish him well and tell him they will see him later. His youngest Brother then comes into Kitchen and local priest bless them as they go off on the walk they would have done 68 years earlier.

You then get flashbacks of incidents they would have had on the road, One being his twin brother dying in an accident, others like fishing, jumping into a canal. Loads of stuff mixed with a modern inpression on society and how Ireland has changed

He then arrives at old school and his other brothers meet him and they walk around the classrooms again recounting old memories and end up at dance hall, where he meets his then wife, and then the School church where he married his wife before taking a ferry and emigrating to Manchester, where he lived all his life thereafter.


It ends with him appearing at the church doors and them opening where he then sees his wife and children at top of alter waiting on him for him to reknew his wedding vows.....

This is just a snippet - but feedback has always been good and think today I made real movement.
 
is that the same general story as your Stack's Garden poem? My apologies if I got the title wrong.
 
Sounds good Baz. Best of luck. 80 year old men is my speciality when it comes to acting. Just so you know...
 
As one of the Sony executives looking to produce this movie, I can tell you that this movie is going to be as stunning as it will be real.
 
Plot sounds good!

Most of it is actually based on my Dad and Uncle....

My Uncle lived in Manchester. He moved there the day he got married. In olden time you actually left with your wife at about 5pm on the day of your wedding and the others stayed on for the reception....

A few years back he did come home for his 80th and all he wanted to do was walk that road. His twin brother did die in front of him as they walked it one Sunday. He didn't however meet his wife in the school but at a dancehall beside it, but did get married in the church.



My Dad walked the road with him for his 80th. Took 8 hours after starting at 9am and they stopped off in nearly every house they knew on the road for some Tea and a chat with a old Farmer (who also was a childhood friend) and the road was between Clonard & Mullingar in County Westmeath Ireland. Not breath taking - but the scenery is in the characters
 
I like these 'Life within a life' stories. Best of luck. And remember: The Music Makes the Movie.


Absolutely.

Sounds interesting. I always like such sort of movies reminiscing the past.Nostalgic and all.
 
:lol:

Is this going to be done in Gaelic?

No.... Its Not Dave.

I think I have an oscar with it.....

Appoaches have been made for Sean Connery to play the lead role, but I am pushing for John Hurt. I actually wrote the part for Richard Harris
 
I hear Mick Lally comes cheap baz

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with good reason though
 
CGI elements of the 'rest of the world' so that it gets 'younger' as the day goes on. By the end, it's all a crazy mix of present day and memory (LCDs and pinafores) and he's all but overwhelmed only to find at the church his wife is exactly as they were on their original wedding day.

You must do this if you want to target the golden 18-49 demographic.

You must not do this if you have any integrity whatsoever.