Sorry I'm behind a little, I'm preping some of my books for one of those horrible things where you stand behind you books and when people tell you your last movie was awful. Well, at least I am closer to actually have a book. Actually 3 books.
Most of you have probably known I've got these three books, each different just to show you I can do other things.
What books? And why? Aren't you a screenwriter? Are you broke?
Well, it started with a screenplay I wrote called Emperor of Mars. It's based on my life in the middle of Manitoba, north of Minnesota for you Americans and others.
I lived in a small town (895) in a cool valley with short mountains around us. It was where I grew up to to the of 12. It was what you would think; farms, wheat, barley, everything. It even had a mountain about four miles from us, one that would be something really cool.
Nothing happened in my town, just a bullie or two and a Chinese cafe. You find them on every small town.
And there was love, well, at the age of 12.
She was everything a guy my age would see her as the hottest girl ever.
Well, not a girl. A teacher. My Teacher. And she entered my world when she arrived ready to start teaching. In her class. My class.
There were others of course, other 12 yr old girl. But my teacher was heaven. So much that when I left my town, I would continue to find her at the same school for over 40 years. And I would always find her whenever I crossed the country.
And we would have a drink of whiskey and talk about our lives, even when she lost her husband later on.
My buddies were also there, and I had a crush on a girl in my teacher's class but I always remembered her.
So Let's flash upwards, way, way up. To 2011.
And I finally decided I would write my movie. If I had an idea. Of course I was know far away from my little town and my teacher and my friends. I had been thinking about a story but I didn't have one.
A story about a couple of kids and a school teacher was cool. But what else.
Then, a Martian came to earth in 1960 and told earth he was going to tell us about earth and everything else.
Was that real?
Well, I was working in a TV station in Canada (one of those who read earlier) and came across a story that hit it.
It was The Emperor of Mars. And he was coming to earth.
It hit it. Perfectly. There were radios and old TV's were on from Canada to California.
The Martian was coming to earth.
I finally found a story. Spaceman came to earth. And it was all over the western U.S. and Canada. I still have cut-outs that I found more stories talking about "the alien".
All I had to do now, remembering the small town, is to write it.
All I needed is a martian.
So...
