Gaddafi is a Screenwriter
Also in the world of screenwriting news, Muammar al-Gaddafi, the dictator of Libya, the man who once fashioned himself as “the Mao Zedong of the Middle East” is now a screenwriter:
“A series of impressionistic sketches he has written evoking his country as it was on the eve of invasion by Italy in September 1911 – placid, rustic, traditional – and then as it roused itself to fight to expel the foreigners, is to become the basis for a film costing at least $40m (£19.1m) which begins shooting in Libya next year. Aimed principally at a non-Arab audience, and entitled Dhulm – Years of Torment, it will tell the story of Libya's traumatic experience at the hands of Europe's Johnny-come-lately imperialists.”
5 comments:
As long as he isn't in the WGA and scabbing everything is okay.
It'll be my luck the bastard will become a showrunner and end up making millions, while I'll be stuck push starting my '65 Dodge Dart on alternative day parking just so I won't get a ticket.
Such is the Hollywood life.
God help him if he shows up to picket. Although, I know some directors who are bigger dictators...
By the way, if anyone can translate his script and e-mail it to me, I'll be HAPPY to do a script review!
Hehehe...
-MM
mysterymants@hotmail.com
Think he might have a little more artistic control than most writers?
My path to hollywood:
1. become a meglomaniac dictator of a small country. Amass a small fortune (or not so small) in the process.
2. write a screenplay
viola!!
Hey, Saddam wrote romance novels... why not?
Bet he didn't get any crappy studio notes :)
cheers
Dave
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