If you miss the TV show, you can still enjoy the film.Īnyway, that’s what I would do. If you miss the movie, you can still watch the serial. The rest of the story is then told on TV. (Or, after the final scene, flash to the down deep, Jules working on the generator, which is making a freaking racket, and someone nearby gossipping about the cleaning, about the sheriff being dead, and then the question: “Any idea who’ll replace him?” Work a Juliette sighting in there with Holston and Marnes in the down deep, perhaps.

The film opens afterward in the past with Allison discovering something amiss in IT.ĩ0 minutes to tell the story. And after this scene, with doubt cast about the outside world, cut to the title.

Conversation, talk about the wallscreen, the taboos, about Allison. Asks to go out.Ĭut to the mayor being told, her and Marnes, he’s not sure what’s up with him. They go to the cell Holston locks himself inside. Pan to a dead body visible on the wallscreen. Holston wobbles, grabs a chair, makes it to his office. Up in the cafeteria, Holston dodges through the kids, pan to a shot of the wallscreen, and then as he’s walking toward his office, a short flashback to his wife on the ground screaming to be let out. You could even throw the intro credits (or whatever you call them) on the screen during this bit. Close up of his hand on the railing, the worn metal treads, the chipping paint, a shot of a light bulb flickering, rust stains on the wall, more squealing from above, maybe a ball goes bouncing through a railing and tumbles into space (or a paper plane, or an article of clothing). Start with Holston on the stairs, walking up, sounds of children playing (fans of the books would dig this being ripped right off the page). If I was entrusted with writing the screenplay, I would tell the story of WOOL pretty much as it is in the book, but with longer flashbacks, more of a sense of mystery and discovery, and more with Marnes and Jahns. I would only tell what’s in the first WOOL. So here’s what I would do (SPOILER ALERT!): This and the offer from the BBC has me wondering just what sort of film or TV show anyone would expect to make of WOOL. (I suppose I’ll know more about this *after* we talk). Tonight I’ll be talking to my film co-agent, who I think is going to shop WOOL around to studios and production companies.

The wool trilogy