"We've Strayed Out of a Safe Line Somewhere..." Wayne Spitzer's Adaptation of "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood Steps Into A Larger World

Wayne's scriptment for a feature-length film based upon Algernon Blackwood's The Willows has, at last, moved to the next level. Wayne's vision of the material includes elements of Blackwood's The Centaur as well as The Man Whom the Trees Loved, The Temptation of the Clay, and The Glamour of the Snow. Stay tuned for future updates as the project continues to transcend its micro-budget origins! ABOVE: Wayne's "Proof of Concept" poster design, conceived before Al Gore climbed into the cherry-picker!

Two Favorites Get Adapted, One For the First Time, One For the Third, With Mixed Results

Something is fueling the apocalyptic impulse in our popular culture--is it the end of the world, the end of empire, or both?

Frank Darabont has some B-movie fun before finding the existential crisis for us all in a shattering version of King's Mist; new I Am Legend finally captures the essential loneliness of Richard Matheson's classic novel...before failing even more spectacularly than the previous versions.