“The impetus to write any kind of book is usually evident in the first 50 to 100 pages. That’s where you’re really laying down the themes that are going to propel you through the rest of the book and that’s particularly true of Annie’s book,” Elwood Reid reveals in his exclusive interview with Gold Derby about sticking to the opening 100 pages when adapting the novel “Barkskins” by Annie Proulx as a television drama (watch the video above).
The creator and showrunner continues about the origins of the project for National Geographic, “They said, ‘We don’t know if this is adaptable.’ If you look at this book on its outside, it’s a 700-page book that tracks multiple generations of characters throughout the centuries. That’s hard to translate to television, but there was a tone and a theme in there, like I said, in the first 100 pages that I was captivated by.
The creator and showrunner continues about the origins of the project for National Geographic, “They said, ‘We don’t know if this is adaptable.’ If you look at this book on its outside, it’s a 700-page book that tracks multiple generations of characters throughout the centuries. That’s hard to translate to television, but there was a tone and a theme in there, like I said, in the first 100 pages that I was captivated by.
- 5/28/2020
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
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