Saw "The Book of Eli" last night, Scott. Given your religous background I highly recommend you see this movie for yourself.

The core story is about a man on a mission to take what may well be that last surviving bible across a destoyed American landscape 30 years after a nucklear exchange.

Warner Brothers really supriced me with how well they handled the religious element in "The Book of Eli." I now feel a little better about some of my own script chances, as in a lot of my scripts I have religious elements in them. Not all, mind you, but some. In the ones that do have religous elements I've ALWAYS been keenly aware that I'm trying to entertain BOTH people who are same faith as me, AND people who hold to a different belief system.

In the back of mind I've always worried if I ever sold a scipt I've written which had a religous elements, could Hollywood be respectfull? After watching "The Book of Eli" I feel much better about that happening.

LOVED the soft-sell message in this story. Would be very curious to read what your take of this moive was, Scott. Thanks for the post.

- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA

Wow, this made it sound almost too easy...just writing about something or some character you think is cool, regardless of the fact that it's been done a bazillion times before? And it sold?? And the first draft was easy??

I don't know whether to be encouraged about my own chances or absolutely depressed...

@E.C.: Yes, I plan to see Book of Eli, always interested in how Hwood handles spiritual themes.

@JD: I find the life of a screenwriter is both encouragement and discouragement, some times more one way or the other.

Re Whitta: Proof that sometimes, it is that easy. For my part, I'd take that as encouragement.

Screenwriting should be fun. It's entirely too much unpaid work not to be.

Hello I think this is going to be off the subject but I hope that I can get the help I need. I am not a writer at all. But I would like to have a story of something that happened to my family be written about. My sister and her husband had my daughter for a summer visit and sent us papers and sued us for custody of her. It was very traumatic and hurtful. We ended up settling out of court, but now after 3 years she is HOME. Thank you and I appreciate any responses. Sorry if I posted in a wrong place.

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