When you were writing Savages, did you ever think that Oliver Stone would end up buying the rights to it? Ultimately that tortured history is why we decided to take a very different path with Savages. In Hollywood they call it “development hell” and that is a good name for it.
I am fortunate in that all of my books have been optioned for the movies and by wonderful filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Peter Berg and Robert De Niro but getting them made has proven very difficult. Films like 8 ½ and La Strada encouraged me to take risks with the creative structure of my novels, especially Savages. I have always been convinced that there is a strong interplay between noir and cinema, and personally I think that my writing has been heavily influenced by the big screen unconsciously because I grew up with the films, because they have been consciously contaminated by the work of directors like Truffaut, Fellini and Woo and others. HeyUGuys: When writing your books, do you write them imaging them turned into films and did you always hope it would get picked up?ĭon Winslow: I do not write them imagining them as films but I am deeply influenced by films. Here the author talks about the distancing of the movie and its source, how it feels as a writer to have his character brought to the screen, and which of his previous novels might be heading to a cinema soon. With both Savages and his next screenplay, Satori, Winslow is deep in the process of adaptation, aligning himself with people as passionate about the story as he. Winslow’s work is attracting a lot of attention in Hollywood and for any writer it is the adaptation process which determines how their voice finds itself on screen.
With Oliver Stone behind the camera Savages was one of the year’s highly anticipated films. American novelist and screenwriter Don Winslow’s latest novel is The Kings of Cool, a prequel to a 2010 novel which he recently adapted for the screen.
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