I just finished the first draft of my horror script "Caleguinas" in Spanish.... and started writing the second one, in English.
Movie coming up soon!
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With a perhaps prescient title, Gollancz will publish in July 11th, "Episodes," the new book by my good old buddy Chris (aka British science fiction writer superstar Christopher Priest), which includes the short-story about stage magicians, "The Stooge."
After I directed in 2018 the film version of it, I am showing it now around Hollywood as a proof-of-concept EPISODE for my own TV series about magic and time travel... "One Million Times".
And I don't lose sight of my dream of collaborating again with Chris in a feature-length movie based on his masterpiece book "Inverted World."
As Christopher Priest himself eloquently puts it in this interview with Ryan Hill, it is... insane:
You’ve also written an original screenplay for a film called The Stooge. Can you tell us a little about that? How was it writing for film instead of the printed page?
The Stooge was originally written as a short story, a sort of footnote to The Prestige. After it was finished and published, I suddenly thought what a perfect little plot it had for a short film. So I wrote it, and put it away somewhere. Much later, I was in contact with a filmmaker friend of mine called Rogelio Fojo, who for years has harboured an insane and suicidal wish to make a feature out of my novel Inverted World. We were talking about that, talking about The Prestige, and I suddenly thought of The Stooge. When I showed it to him he grabbed it."
Indeed I did. As most Uruguayans, I was born with the most exquisite sci-fi taste in the galaxy!
Updated: Apr 7, 2019
After a wonderful experience premiering "The Stooge" at the recent NoHo Film Festival (which officially launched its 2019 film festival circuit run) I shift my focus now to other Film and TV projects:
I have TWO independent features films already financed and in pre-production. Plus, I have another feature in pre-production and TWO TV series in development (one is about TIME, the other one is about SPACE), written in collaboration with JPL and NASA scientists.
Let's recap:
1) "THE STOOGE" (sci-fi mystery short film) Written by Christopher Priest. Directed by Rogelio Fojo. Executive Produced by Miguel Delgadillo & Pepe Casillas. Starring: Robert Picardo, Pat Scott, Carisa Hendrix, Pop Haydn, Adam Sonnet & Herbert Siguenza.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2145943/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
2) "ONE MILLION TIMES" (sci-fi feature film) Directed by Rogelio Fojo. Written by Richard Doyle & Rogelio Fojo. Executive Produced by Miguel Delgadillo & Pepe Casillas.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9893812/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1
3) "CALEGUINAS" (horror feature film) Based on a short story by Fernando Sorrentino. Directed by Rogelio Fojo. Executive Produced by Miguel Delgadillo & Pepe Casillas.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8201364/?ref_=nm_knf_i4
4) "ONE MILLION TIMES" (sci-fi TV series) Directed by Rogelio Fojo. Written by Richard Doyle & Rogelio Fojo. Executive Produced by Miguel Delgadillo & Pepe Casillas.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5715862/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_4
5) "MISSION ANONMALY" (sci-fi TV series) Directed by Rogelio Fojo. Written by Adriana C. Ocampo & Rogelio Fojo. Executive Produced by Marlene Dermer.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7214136/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_3
6) "REDIRECTED" (sci-fi Feature Film) Directed by Rogelio Fojo.
Written by Adriana C. Ocampo & Rogelio Fojo.
So, lots of fun work coming up!
I'm lucky to have a great team around to make all this possible.
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