Free Thriller: The Pineville Heist eBook/screenplay attracts Twilight Star

[leechambers]

My Pineville Heist eBook was first developed as a movie screenplay (which became a Grand Prize winner at the Canada International Film Festival). The book is now in the financing stages with Booboo Stewart from the Twilight movies (he plays Seth Clearwater) signed on to play the lead character, Aaron Stevens in the YA thriller.  We are planning the shoot the movie in Canada at the end of the year.

Getting great reviews so far...  Here's the link on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Pineville-Heist-ebook/dp/B005DST2U8/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1328277554&sr=1-2

Hollywood keeps making silly sequels... But there are GREAT stories to be found on Amazon! Check out The Pineville Heist for under a buck and let me know what you think. Happy to meet new readers and writers - and share the screenplay version too! Cheers, Lee

[Jan Strnad]

Best of luck with the film!

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[bxs122]

I've often wondered if there was a path from indie book to movies.

Other than yours – how often does this happen?

How would an indie author approach a studio about a possible movie project?  Do you write a screen play and try to sell that?

[leechambers]

Studios and producers buy up literary content all the time but they make them all into movies. My writing partner I and wrote the screenplay first and then I adapted it into book form. Now I have the creative content in two formats. That may prove to be valuable to distributors when marketing it.

Truth is there is no one path. The main issue with making a movie is the cost. Millions of dollars at stake and producers need to mix the business and the art. Will it make money is the big question.

Who thinks their book is ripe for the big screen? Who thinks they have material that would draw a HUGE audience?