Adapted Screenplay: The Innocent
Adapted Screenplay: The Innocent
Have a heart and have a soul.
All else is passing fancy.
–Russian Proverb
After we collaborated on The Creative Compass, my father asked me to adapt his latest novel into a feature-length screenplay. Two years of writing and several rounds of feedback produced The Innocent:
Half-Cossack, half-Jewish, trained for war, Sergei Ivanov rides across the empire seeking the men who kidnapped his daughter and destroyed his life. To find them, to find peace, he must remember…
Have a heart and have a soul.
All else is passing fancy.
–Russian Proverb
After we collaborated on The Creative Compass, my father asked me to adapt his latest novel into a feature-length screenplay. Two years of writing and several rounds of feedback produced The Innocent:
Half-Cossack, half-Jewish, trained for war, Sergei Ivanov rides across the empire seeking the men who kidnapped his daughter and destroyed his life. To find them, to find peace, he must remember…