Wood's entry opens:
The weird thing is that when I’m reading someone else’s book, I always imagine who I would like to see play the parts in the movie, but when it comes to my own books, I don’t really have a visual of who would appear in the movie. I think the reason for this is that I’m too close to the material. Also when I’m writing all these characters, I tend to be playing all these characters in my head. So if the book became a movie, I’m not sure the world is ready to see me do a one-man production.Read an excerpt from Accidents Waiting to Happen.
That said, I do visualize certain people for several of the roles in Accidents Waiting to Happen. The main role of Josh Michaels requires an actor who comes over as a vulnerable everyman and not someone who is an indestructible superhero. For that I think Matthew Fox (Jack from Lost) would be perfect. I think the moviegoers would get behind him. They could forgive him for the mistakes Josh had made in the story and they would root for him to survive the onslaught coming his way.
Josh has a femme fatale in the form of Belinda “Bell” Wong in his life and there’s no contest to who I want for that role.... [read on]
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Simon Wood is the Anthony Award winning author of four books as well as over 150 published stories and articles.
The Page 69 Test: Accidents Waiting to Happen.
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