Ah, but Jack, not all movies are based on hard cover books! Just look at  The 
Phantom, Spiderman I-III, Superman, Fantastic Four, Judge Dredd, Planet of  
the Apes, Darkman, The Brothers Grimm, Batman, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, and most 
 recently, Stardust, and yet to be released, The Golden Compass. The 
Hollywood  movie industry has canvassed the comic book industry for the past 15-years 
and  all these titles came from comic book themes. My personal favorite is 
Stardust,  which just came out a few weeks back. 
 
But here is the key, the studios created the software to force writers to  
format the stories in their script form so they can be adapted to movies. You  
see, Jack, you were blithely thinking that I had gone bonkers and was just  
promoting some sort of off the shelf writing software. But that is not  the case, 
I invested several hours talking to the good folks from Paramount and  why 
they created the writing software. Out of 120,000 people that passed through  
the Comic Convention a few weeks ago, at least 2,000 were creative writers  
pushing storylines for new comics and the studios were netting those guys and  
gals for their own purposes. So while your associate script writer was wooing  
you in the coffee shop and her dud for a boss was sipping martinis in the  
Caribbean, a whole raft of creative writers were pressing their hot topics into  
movie scripts. In point of fact, Neil Gaiman and artist Charles  Vess adapted 
out their four issue comic book called Stardust into a  script and, voila, it 
became a movie. Those Vess prints and pen & ink  originals that hang in my house 
will become infinitely more valuable. But back  to my point, Jack--- Jack, 
now you can write your own scripts. 
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.



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