Demon Inc. News and Rumors

First, thanks to everyone for their support.
We are still working towards getting Demon Inc: Zombie Maker on the screen. We have not given up, we are still progressing. There is a studio looking at the screenplay and a few people who we won't reveal right now have suggested that Demon Inc. could make a wonderful program for podcasting. Video podcasting allows a person to watch televison programs on their ipod device or any other device capable of playing the files. It is still a fairly new idea and new publishing and broadcast technology is something that always captures our interest.

P.S.
If Mr. Spielberg, or Mr. Shamylan is reading, please contact us.
Everyone else can contact us at the Email address at the top of the page. We like to hear from you.

Graham Thomaz
Writer

The people I talk to often express a great deal of interest once I tell them that I am making a movie.

People get excited when I reveal what I am doing because I think that they were clueless about what I did before.

I have been a writer for many years and most people understand the day to day labor of a writer. I sit around waiting for someone to assign me something to write about. That is my job. There are times like this, when I have some flexibility is deciding the subject matter of the article I write but it is rare.

In general most acquaintances ask similar questions.
Do I get a lunch break? How often do I get paid? Why am I asking so many stupid questions? Why am I interviewing a high school student?

Most people are curious about the rest of my activity. What do I do when I am not writing? Do I write for the entire eight hour work day? Is there something to write about everyday?

I don't get these questions when I say I am making a movie. Everyone seems to know, or have some familiarity with movie making.

Everyone believes I will become rich and famous after the movie is completed, and everyone further believes that the movie will be made in two weeks and in the theater on the third week.

I think they would be shocked if I told them the actual process.
You have to start with an idea which becomes a good story which is turned into a screenplay. Then you rewrite rewrite rewrite.

The idea part was easy. Unfortunately, with a screenplay, all of the descriptive parts are eliminated. A screenplay is composed of dialogue and scene changes and not much else.

In a novel you can describe the wrinkles on the elephant. You can describe the hairs on its tail, the size, the roughness of the pedestal like feet. In a screenplay you describe the elephant as grey and move on. Guess that is where the director comes in.

We hope that progress on the movie keeps moving in a positive direction, because if it doesn't I'll have to continue explaining what I do all day.

Graham Thomaz
Writer

It has been a long time since new information was presented about the Demon Inc. Project.
Black Tide has not been sleeping on the project but our passion took us down several roads which were leading to the same destination. With the efforts toward licensing, video games, and finally motion pictures, we have a lot of work ahead of us.

Wouldn't the characters be great for a video game? We thought so and we won't sleep until it is done.
We like the work that was done on Def Jam 's project.
One of the staff alerted us that a special look at the making of the game was on television. It was very informative. We liked the programmers attention to detail.

Currently the push is for a motion picture. We want the film to be completed by the end of 2005 for a 2006 release at the latest. That's the plan and we are sticking to it. Now if everyone else sticks to the schedule is another challenge. We are searching for a film studio to pick up the screenplay and run with it. Should not be difficult, since the response to the graphic novel was terrific.

The Demon Inc. Zombie Maker script was easy to write since most of it was already written. Fortunately because of the nature of screen writing, some of the scenes that were removed during the editing of the original graphic novel were added again. Some characters were changed and a more cinematic story was created.

As usual more material was written than could be used in the screenplay. Actually a prequel to the movie was conceived while the first screenplay was being written.

That's where we are now. A movie based on a popular cyber novel. I think it will be a first once we get it done. Wish us luck, and watch the movie screens, we will be there.