DEFENSE INDUSTRY REPORT IV: Who are these cops and why do they keep following me? – ARTHUR MAGAZINE – WE FOUND THE OTHERS.

This is part 4 of 5 so far.

We have both just seen the Swedish horror film “Låt Den Rätte Komma In” (aka. Let The Right One In).
Short synops: Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.

I think we agree about the interesting timing in a Swedish horror being launched, subtitled in the UK and already bought for remake in the US. I’m equally intrigued by the possibilities this might provide for us to market our script when the next full Draft is finished.

In the meantime I’m working with a friend and writer Jason Webster on a mystery/horror set in London. The idea is roughly based on one of those old plots that every writer has in his desk drawer (or in reality hidden away deep in some old folder on his laptop). In this case it was a short episode that happened to my father when I was about 14 years old, or possibly less. He didn’t tell me at the time, but later when we started working together he brought it up as a possibly idea for a film. I wrote a few pages on it, but simply didn’t know what to do with it. I put it away, to later take it out every second year and write a few more words on it, or try to incorporate it in another idea I was writing on. Nothing ever seemed to work and the idea was always put away again, sometimes with a different name, so that it would pop up again unexpected at a later date.

It wasn’t until a late night of drinking, talking with Jason and a next day of hangover, early beers and hours of more talking that the idea suddenly found it’s potential home. We’re now pretty charged up about the story we’ve decided to write around this plot-idea. I think I’ve now exhausted my and your patience writing about this, without actually telling what the idea is, which I can’t, for various reasons. Let’s just say it’s that good, that I don’t want to share it right now.

In time. Until then…