Book of eli director interview blind

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Published in Jan. Night Shyamalan. Gary has written for video games and comics and he also worked on the upcoming feature film Star Wars: Rogue One , which unfortunately he is strictly forbidden from discussing. He recently used the Ink Shares crowdfunding platform to publish his first novel, Abomination. This interview first appeared on Wired.

Book of eli director interview blind

Though the film itself is a completely original story, "The Book of Eli" is the post-apocalyptic brainchild of a self professedly geeky imagination raised on comic books, video games and sci-fi television. Screenwriter Gary Whitta spoke Friday at WonderCon about the genesis of the project and what the film will mean for his own genre work in the future. As a longtime writer for magazines PC Gamer and ACE, Whitta knew from a very young age that he was going to transform his creative loves into gainful employment, saying, "It was very satisfying when I got my first job writing about video games and could go to my mother and say, 'See, I told you! It was a mixed blessing, then, when Whitta lost his job and finally made the decision to push his dreams one step further, aiming to become a writer in the style of a personal hero, "Dark Knight" and "Blade" screenwriter David Goyer, bringing a cinematic weight to genre pieces. That's how long I thought I'd give myself. Quickly cranking out a half dozen screenplays, "each one slightly less awful than the last," Whitta knew he was in the right place when he paired with the same creative management company as Brian Michael Bendis. Backed with a bevy of scripts including some "so bad no one will ever see" , Whitta made his move on Hollywood. The idea for "The Book of Eli," however, came from a somewhat unusual source; A friend of Whitta's held annual Halloween party, going with a theme one year of post-apocalyptic films. What are you gonna do? Go as 'The Postman? Describing himself as a prototypical "Fat Eli," Whitta donned a priest collar and went as machete-armed, Bible-wielding warrior.

But even back then, I went in there thinking the audience is not necessarily going to be on the side of my argument. So, I wrote Abomination in my free time over the course of, I think, two years.

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Godforsaken, many would call this dystopian earth. But God is not gone, nor forgotten. For Eli carries, along with his gloves and guns and cruel, broad blade, something special. Something sacred. In the age gone by, Bibles were burned by the bushel. They caused the War that tore a hole through the sky, the people said. It must be destroyed—wiped from the face of the earth. He carries it west, always west, where the sun comes down from heaven and seems to set upon the ground. In the heart of this parched land, a man named Carnegie has built a fiefdom around a precious spring.

Book of eli director interview blind

The world is barely inhabitable with some regions covered in ash and others nothing but a barren wasteland of its former self. However, the titular Eli traverses this world on a mission alone. Between the natural hazards of the world and groups of marauders terrorizing anyone seemingly weaker than them, this is no easy task. The Book of Eli isn't the first post-apocalyptic film , and it won't be the last. However, it is one of the few that delivers a compelling twist ending that audiences can see coming if they pay attention. It's an ending that does more than deliver some shock value to the film, unlike some M. Night Shyamalan movies.

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That was just a movie about an estranged father and a son who, through this experience, finally found a way to reconnect as a father and a son. Just what were the range of opinions that you heard from people in response to the movie? Quickly cranking out a half dozen screenplays, "each one slightly less awful than the last," Whitta knew he was in the right place when he paired with the same creative management company as Brian Michael Bendis. I may be a sympathetic audience for this movie because it really reminded me of a Heinlein juvenile like Tunnel in the Sky , the kind of stuff I grew up reading, and it was an okay example of that sort of movie. He lives in New York. It was the thing that I wanted. And then also to see it produced in a way that is basically faithful to what you wrote. But are these all people you know? Was that the only debate like that you did? That's how he learn braille. They got caught up in the whole dot com crash that everyone else did around And I, as a fifteen-year-old kid, had saved up all of my paper route money and all of my allowance to buy an Amiga He does everything or he did as he's passed away now.

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It is kind of an eclectic mix. Carnegie's own character really manifested through Washington's interpretation, intentionally stylizing himself after the not-yet-cast Gary Oldman. But you got plenty of crazy letters back in the day? He said, 'I just thought you'd like to check those out. That was just a movie about an estranged father and a son who, through this experience, finally found a way to reconnect as a father and a son. The Book of Eli went from one of my favs to near the top of the list. You know it when you see it. Are you familiar with any of the geography and things featured in this book? Yeah, just watch the trailer! And the same is true with a script. I just thought it particularly ironic that Glen Beck. I came up with the idea for the Ursa, which was this idea of a creature that had been genetically engineered to hunt humans. Another proof is at the end by Gary Oldman's character's reaction when he realized Eli was blind. She is good with a sword.