In March of 2002 I was sleeping in a friend’s basement in Cambridge, MA, when I awoke with the strangest sensation–my dreams were so vivid that I quickly wrote them down and I realized that I had just met a new person. That night, the 63 year old Darrel Weir was born. An aging Vietnam war correspondent, paralyzed from the waist down, with an angry chip on his shoulder. In the following years his son Owen Weir too became a part of my life. Owen, a Recon Marine dug in on the Saudi/Kuwait boarder waiting for the ’91 ground war to begin slowly began to take his place as my protagonist and eventually the feature screenplay “Living-Room War” came into being.
Now, a little over three years later, I’ve just printed off the fourth draft of my 120 page script for the first time and I’m starting to feel ready to go out and try to raise the money to make it.
That’s the first entry in this blog project to cover the entire development life of a movie called Living-Room War from Doug Karr at Human Scale Productions.
It’s going to be a really interesting blog, and so far you can get quite a sense for what it could become, and it looks like it will become something concrete. As you read through his early posts of research and ideals for the project you begin to see how interesting this could be come production and filming time, and what a journey it would be to be alongside from the beginning.
Check out the Blog, and please readers, let’s be a bit better than the two click throughs we had to the previous Independent movie Blog we told you about. Give it a go, and see if you get interested, after all we’re all saying we’re getting a bit sick of the same Hollywood pulp, so let’s put our reading glasses where our keyboards are…?!
