It’s been a bit hectic of late. Deadline day has come and gone though and we’re still in one piece.

Are there multiple ways to tell a story or is there just one?   In a world that promotes and covets 'choices' I am becoming drawn to the idea that perhaps there is a true, single telling of a story already out there, waiting to be excavated.

The League of Cruelty who have been keeping a close eye on The Dark Half, are now wanting to make Lucy their Spokeswoman. So impressed were they by her Evil. In fairness, she would rather be behind the scenes, dressed in Wellington boot and wet suit, actually dishing out the bashing.

"Like giving birth to an elephant"

The last 12 weeks have been a whirlpool of activity, as crew lists, budgets, script, storyboards, casting and website plans have all grown from tiny seeds to the healthy sapplings of potential. 

Carol has been beavering away on l...

Sarah’s email to Nicholas sums up the last week (and indeed the whole creative process in getting from outline to screenplay) best:  “Dan’s soul has been truly fought over and he has come out smiling.” 

This (very productive) fighting...

More sex this week.  This time it was Damage with Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche.  Interesting how often passionate movie affairs involve French people – is it that, to the Anglo-Saxon psyche, the French represent everything that is sexy, passionate and dan...

I was a bit worried when Sarah said she and Mark were wondering around an office with a student in his underwear and a traumatised cat.  It seemed as if the stress had got to the pair of them and they’d started living the Eight Minutes Idle life for real.  But it ...

Last week Kasia decided to watch as many sex films as she possibly could.  Well, not just any old sex films obviously ….

Script delivered yesterday after a long, arduous month of work.  It's been very intense, pushing and pushing this idea into something that feels as fresh and authentic as possible.

Late November last year we sat down in a pub in Easton and, with the help of a few drinks, began thrashing out ideas for a story.  The starting point was a feeling.

Wow! I feel a little feral. We've just had the busiest two weeks and I have struggled to find the time to blog until now. I've even managed to accidentally grow a beard due to having no time to actually shave either.

When Nicholas and I first started taking the train to sessions in Bristol, we usually booked tickets for a table seat in the quiet carriage.  But after repeatedly getting thrown out for talking too loudly, we now go in a normal carriage.  Even there, however, we seem to have an u...

“It’s not easy this, is it?”  Sarah emailed midway through our most intensive period of script development yet.  It started last Saturday Sarah assembled a wonderful group of actors and booked us a rehearsal room at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school.  On the hottest d...

That "difficult second album"; that "difficult second film".

Queen's flat + child trap...

So a few things have happened in the last week. 

Firstly I've been hanging out in the Queen's flat.