Screenwriter John August On NOT Writing Alice In Wonderland Three Times
By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2010 4:53 pm EST
John August is a screenwriter I’ve been following for over a decade. He broke onto the scene with a spec script titled Go, which was directed for the screen by Doug Liman (a film I highly recommend). Since then August has written a bunch of adaptations and remakes, mostly in association with director Tim Burton (Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride). He made a fantastic directorial debut with an original independent sci-fi mystery drama The Nines, and he’s producing Prince of Persia, wrote Preacher, and is also attached to Burton’s Frankenweenie and Dark Shadows.
Aside from being a screenwriter and filmmaker, August regularly blogs about his craft and the film business on his blog JohnAugust.com. If you’re an aspiring screenwriter, August’s blog is a must read. His latest post is on his history with Alice in Wonderland, a film he’s “not written” three times (and no, that wasn’t a typo…). He explains how Go was originally envisioned as a retelling of Alice (a revealation that completely blew my mind), and talks about his time trying to adapt American McGee’s twisted video game version of Alice for Wes Craven and a Finding Neverland-esque take on the project that was set-up with director Sam Mendes at Dreamworks, and was killed when Burton’s adaptation was announced. Read the blog now on JohnAugust.com.
Screenwriter John August On NOT Writing Alice In Wonderland Three Times
By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2010 4:53 pm EST
John August is a screenwriter I’ve been following for over a decade. He broke onto the scene with a spec script titled Go, which was directed for the screen by Doug Liman (a film I highly recommend). Since then August has written a bunch of adaptations and remakes, mostly in association with director Tim Burton (Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride). He made a fantastic directorial debut with an original independent sci-fi mystery drama The Nines, and he’s producing Prince of Persia, wrote Preacher, and is also attached to Burton’s Frankenweenie and Dark Shadows.
Aside from being a screenwriter and filmmaker, August regularly blogs about his craft and the film business on his blog JohnAugust.com. If you’re an aspiring screenwriter, August’s blog is a must read. His latest post is on his history with Alice in Wonderland, a film he’s “not written” three times (and no, that wasn’t a typo…). He explains how Go was originally envisioned as a retelling of Alice (a revealation that completely blew my mind), and talks about his time trying to adapt American McGee’s twisted video game version of Alice for Wes Craven and a Finding Neverland-esque take on the project that was set-up with director Sam Mendes at Dreamworks, and was killed when Burton’s adaptation was announced. Read the blog now on JohnAugust.com.
Aside from being a screenwriter and filmmaker, August regularly blogs about his craft and the film business on his blog JohnAugust.com. If you’re an aspiring screenwriter, August’s blog is a must read. His latest post is on his history with Alice in Wonderland, a film he’s “not written” three times (and no, that wasn’t a typo…). He explains how Go was originally envisioned as a retelling of Alice (a revealation that completely blew my mind), and talks about his time trying to adapt American McGee’s twisted video game version of Alice for Wes Craven and a Finding Neverland-esque take on the project that was set-up with director Sam Mendes at Dreamworks, and was killed when Burton’s adaptation was announced. Read the blog now on JohnAugust.com.
