And I thought: that’s an interesting character. I mean, I could tell that he hated his job. There was this young guy walking towards me in a security guard’s uniform, about 24 years old, and he just looked miserable. It was 7am in the morning in August, and it was an incredibly hot day already. I had been walking down the street in New York. I was most interested in my very few central characters. The Andromeda Strain, certainly, you know, is a landmark about some weird microbes coming from space. I can’t wait to do it again.Ĭold Storage shares some aspects with John Wyndham’s The Day Of The Triffids – the kind of story of mankind’s hubris coming back to bite us in the arse. Sometimes you’re trying to accommodate so many other people that what you want to do is lost. That sense of creation and discovery, it was great to have it back again, because it’s not always the case for screenwriters.
I never gave it a serious thought until now. So you know, it crosses your mind when you write words for a living.
I had talked about it once before, but to be fair, I think I’d been drinking. Had you ever considered writing a novel before? That’s just old instincts that can’t be overcome. So the book does have a very brisk pace, especially in the last half.
Movies are slaves to pace and story advancement. But by the time I got to page 100, I had to admit that it was a book.Īnd as for how movie-writing influenced it… and you know, as I said, several decades of writing in a certain form does influence you. Within a day or two, I thought, “Oh, this is probably a story.” I didn’t want to say ‘book’ because it’s too overwhelming, and I’d quit. I could talk about things that had little to do with the forward momentum of the story. So I started writing what I thought was half-decent prose, and then I quickly realised, “Oh, this is really fun.” I just loved that I could write inside a character’s head.
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