It was about what revenge does to a man’s soul. “Rattleborge” was a bizarre and compelling morality play that explored a cycle of bloodshed and violence and bloodlust. “Look, some dude wrote a screenplay and he used the word ‘agglutinated’ in one of the prose passages when describing dried blood and brain matter! Fuck studio readers!”
But when I finished, I wanted to hold the screenplay up in the air like the baby Simba and shout its ultraviolent majestic grandeur from the precipice. It’s part of the atmosphere here.Īnd I only read it a few weeks ago. I’m exposed to the Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy flavor grotesquerie every day.
I don’t just surround myself with books that can be categorized as Southern Gothic, I live in the environment. I’m one of those struggling screenwriters outside of LA that worships at the stone altar of “The Brigands of Rattleborge”. We’re going to explore the coin of this sub-genre a little and look at the ideas that are reflected on both sides of the coin. I’m going to season this review with references to other horror movies and writers of the genre in order to properly convey what this script accomplishes to do. To be released, one presumes…Ĭaveat lector: Forgive me. Helmed by Spanish director, Daniel Calparsoro. Craig Zahler, writer of the 2006 Black List screenplay, “The Brigands of Rattleborge”, wrote this script which has been developed by Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures in conjunction with Vertigo Entertainment. Chaos ensues as the musicians/cooks struggle to escape and stay alive.Ībout: S. Premise: A group of struggling musicians who work as cooks in an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm. I’m leaving the review in the trusted hands of Roger Balfour, a young man whose unique perspective on writing digs all the way to the bone of Zahler’s work. He wrote the script as a directing vehicle and was actually going to shoot the movie for 75,000. Anyway, this is one of Zahler’s earliest scripts, written in 1998 while he was still in college. But hey, you guys don’t want an Oscar? That’s cool with me.
We’re talking Hannibal Lecter territory here. Show this thing to one A-List actor and they’d die to play the part of Abraham, a character that has the potential to be one of the greatest movie characters of all time. Craig Zahler’s script, “Incident at Sans Asylum.” Zahler is the writer of the number three script on my Top 25 list, the Western, “The Brigands Of Rattleborge.” That script is a town favorite, yet everyone’s terrified to make it.
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