DUNCAN'S WAR--the movie: "...an embarrassment of riches"!

Art Director James Chung sees Duncan this way

The script for DUNCAN'S WAR is "...an embarrassment of riches," wrote an independent professional script reader for screenplaycoverage.com.

The producer Phillip Moses submitted the script to two different independent film script reading services for evaluation. 90% of scripts get rejected off the top; 8% get "Consider" and 2% receive "Recommend," the highest ranking they give, which means they think it's a story and script that is ready to be made into a successful movie.

One professional reader gave DUNCAN'S WAR a "Consider," and said this (among other positive things) about it  "There is a lot to like in this script and the historical aspects are very compelling."

The other professional reader (they read independent of each other and without collaboration) gave it an overwhelming "Recommend," and said this about it, "The script combined the two powerful thematic elements of resistance against authority and holding true to one’s faith. Either one would have been sufficient; having two is an embarrassment of riches."

Phillip Moses the producer is a tireless advocate for DUNCAN'S WAR becoming a movie, a really good one. He has recently discovered (or been discovered by) an Australian production company that is enthusiastic about the movie and wants to host filming it and the entire production in Australia. We'll have to follow that one and see how it plays out.

Janie Cheaney WORLD Magazine columnist is doing another interview with me on www.RedeemedReader.com (previous ones can be heard at http://www.bondbooks.net/audiofiles.htm) this one on DUNCAN'S WAR the movie. You can go to their site(s) and follow that interview and like and comment. 

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Reader Jeremiah Lofthus at his own initiative created this movie trailer for DUNCAN'S WAR the movie--thanks Jeremiah!

DUNCAN'S WAR the movie--AFM launch in California

AFM launch poster for the film

The last several days have been an exciting flurry of activity. Duncan's War the movie has been germinating in the imaginations of two film-industry fellows in California. I first met Phillip Moses when I was speaking at a conference in southern California fall of 2010 (his wife was a student of mine years ago at CHS). They drove down from the Bay area, and we chatted about books and film after one of my addresses. Some time later he called me and floated the initial idea of making a big-screen film of Duncan's War. We have had multiple conversations (phone, email, texts, facebook, etc) since.

To be honest, I have vacillated from excited to incredulous, to excited again, to incredulous again--and now to excited. For the first time in more than two years, I actually am beginning to believe these guys will do this, and do it well. One of my big concerns has been that I don't want to dilute the book by turning it into a movie. Novelist John le Carre expressed his chagrin at what film can do to good fiction when he said, "Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bullion cubes." I so do not want to
see that happen to Duncan's War. Neither does the producer.

Many of you have messaged me asking how you can help. A number of you are in the film industry or aspiring to be so. It takes a significant team to produce a quality film. So connect with the producer, Phillip Moses, here https://www.facebook.com/DuncansWar. And if you know talented young actors for the film, especially ones who've grown up in the heather and the moorlands, post their contact information to Mr Moses; he's the man, or to James Chung, art director; he's also the man.

And for those of you who are enthusiastic about this, though you may not be an actor, know an actor, or be involved in film making, all of you can like and share the Duncan's War the movie facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DuncansWar. Film executives and distributors at the AFM conference in LA are watching, sometimes with bewilderment, but they are watching the mounting enthusiasm for this movie. Tell them what you think; they're listening. Like and share today.

Maybe it is not playacting after all!