“Unlocking the Secrets: Transform Your Screenplay into a Gripping Novel with Expert Joe Cornet!”
Joe Cornet
Well, certainly it has been suggested to me, and I’ve had discussions about it, about making it a bigger product, remaking it, because I own the rights free and clear to the movie, obviously, and to remake it into a much bigger and broader in scope film, much more along the lines of what the narrative is in the novel. So that is definitely a goal. The second is just to get a novel out there. And as a writer yourself, writing a novel, writing anything in book format is completely different than writing a screenplay. And this is, I always call it, this was the backwards process. Although back in the 70s and the 80s, if you remember, everybody did novelizations of movies. And this is more than that. This is not just a pat novelization. This is something much more that consumed a lot of time and attention. So, I really paid attention to this and gave it greater depth, greater detail, greater pathos, better backstories on who these people were and why they came to be in the situations they were in. And as I said, a very unique and different story for the end. But I think the idea was to get a book out there. And I had several book ideas in mind. And my first book idea was, I wanted to write just a sort of a nonfiction book of how I got to where I am now, which is actually a very interesting story because it’s not the usual path that one uses to get to. Now I’m working on my seventh feature film and I’ve got six in worldwide release. So the idea of taking the novel and expanding it really appealed to me, but I really wanted to do this story about how I got to this, my early point where I was making film number one and film number two. But I thought about this and I thought this would be a good introduction to the whole book writing process. And I am working on a second novel, tentatively called Kaleidoscope, which is a thriller set in the late 1960s. And that hopefully will be out sometime next year through my publisher, Henry Gray, who has been very good to me.
