“Unlocking the Secrets: Transform Your Screenplay into a Gripping Novel with Expert Joe Cornet!”
Ashley
So, Joe, today we’re here to talk about your new novel, A Prayer for the Damned. Maybe you can talk about that a little bit. What’s the premise of that book and how did that come about?
Joe Cornet
The idea behind this was it’s a prayer for the damned and other tales of the West is basically was suggested to me by my co-producing partner Alexander Nevsky to take my first feature film, which was a prayer for the damned, and to put it in a novelized format. And the beauty of this was that when I made that film six or seven years ago, obviously I was limited to a very restricted budget. And there were a lot of things I was not able to do. So, as with you can do with a novel, I was able to expand it out and give the characters a lot of backstory and make it much more epic in scope. Now the question is, well, why the hell would I want to read the novel if I’ve already seen the movie? And I suggest that because the novel is very different from the movie. It’s the same basic plot line. It’s the same basic group of characters, but there’s different events. There’s different reasons different events happen. And the ending is very different with one minor exception. The ending is very different than the movie. And I’ve got four other tales in there, short stories, which are largely based on either completed screenplays that I’ve had in the past, or notes, or just something out of a journal I found in my drawer and I tore out and I thought, hey, this will make a hell of a good story. And so that kind of rounds out the collection. And then I was lucky enough before he passed away to get the great Don Murray, the last surviving Academy Award nominated actor to work with Marilyn Monroe in bus stop. He wrote the introduction to this book for me before it went to publishing. And sadly, he passed away very close after that. But that’s in there too. And he was of course in my movie promise several years ago.
