robogabs
Studio Screenwriter
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« on: May 29, 2007, 02:42:54 PM » |
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I learned to read at a very young age.
My father used to read to me, and I wanted so badly to be able to decipher those squiggly marks on the page. My older brother could read comic books, and I used to make up stories to go with the pictures (he loved to be able to tell me I couldn't really read).
As a result of my father’s support (and my brother's disdain), I was reading Jack London's and Edgar Rice Borough's works in grade two (my teacher had to write a note to the librarian informing her I could indeed read at that level). Alexandre Dumas, Isaac Asimov, and Shakespeare attracted my interest in quick succession thereafter.
I was educated at Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute and George Brown College in Toronto.
Despite my teachers’ encouragements to become a writer, I arrived at the same conclusion belatedly. Now, it is my passion.
Because I am extremely visual, film was the logical choice of expression for my writing. The first films to catch my attention were the "Carry On" gang's, and Abbot and Costello movies. "El Cid" also sticks in my mind.
Lately, I have become involved in making short films. “Ubuntu Productions” filmed “Search” based on my short screenplay, “DADS.” Steve Fagan of “Jet Addiction” shot and directed “Dictators on a Plane,” based on my short script, “FREEFALL TO UMTIBI.” I am presently finishing, “THE DECISION,” which I wrote, produced and directed.
My favorite genre is the political thriller, although I have written a horror novel, “HORS D’OEUVRES TO THE GODS,” with a screenplay to go with it, as well as “ARTHUR PEN,” a “'tweener” comedy script loosely based on the Arthurian legends.
“SCOURGE” is a script about a small Middle Eastern country which attacks the US preemptively in answer to a War President’s threats. It is extremely fast-paced (think “Syriana” meets “24”), and features a female protagonist.
“HUBRIS” is about terrorists utilizing nuclear plants as WMD against the West. I am passionately antinuclear because of my background (I was a junior designer of components for the Gentilles Nuclear Plant in Quebec and I worked at Pickering on all four of the original units as well as at Douglas Point, and Bruce A and B). It is intended as a horrific warning to all who think nuclear plants are “safe,” clean sources of energy.
“THE PHILOSOPHER" is my latest work following the title character, an Arab super-agent, in his quest to destroy the “Bruckheimer Governance,” a consortium of weapons manufacturers, arms dealers, pharmaceutical companies, and ex-politicos.
- Douglas Wolf
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