If any reader has visited brokenarrowfilms.co.uk they may have seen, amongst the projects listed, the feature film script Variant D4. This Vampire story was written some years ago, long before the recent popularisation of the sub-genre. But as it requires a “real” budget I’ve pushed it back and back to promote cheaper projects such as the feature The bloodline and short films like A Question Of Content and my current project The Triumph of Venus. And of course I have worked on other peoples projects like the feature film script Babbage for Frame On Frame etc.So why bring this up?
Let me tell you:
Yesterday I went to see the Austrian film Daybreakers . It’s a good Vampire yarn and well produced, well worth a visit even if you’re not a total sub-genre fan. However, the point is that the film contains many of the themes and circumstances contained in Variant D4!
It does not put pay to the D4 project entirely but if it did ever get made (and personally I think my story is even better than Daybreakers – {of course I would say this!}) it would be considered to have been inspired by Daybreakers. So, just in case it does get made I will now be able to point to the many, many (somewhat wishful thinking here!) people who have read this blog and visited the website to vouch for D4’s originality. Egotistic or vain is that?
