A New Project

[poliphilo]

Well I never, I think I may have a project for 2006. Yesterday lunchtime we watched a movie about a family who drank from a magic spring in an American wood and were thereafter cursed with immortality. Great idea, poorly developed and explored- but it was a Disney movie so what can you expect? Anyway, it left me wanting to tell the true story- and by nightfall I'd written the first page. This could turn into a novel or even a series of novels. Or it could dribble on for a few more pages and die. I don't know, but right now it feels like fun.

The guys in the movie took their fateful draught in the late 18th century. My character does it sometime during the middle ages. I want to have lots and lots of hstory to play around with.

The working title is Purchas.

Comments

[cassiopia.livejournal.com]

Was the movie called Tuck Everlasting?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283084/

It is based on a children's book that has been around quite some time.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374480095/103-6267300-3419064?v=glance&n=283155

Just FYI so you don't make your story too close to the original.
Maybe you already knew this but I just wanted to make sure.

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

Seconding this, and the book is excellent. I haven't seen the movie, but I feel about Disney much the same as you do, Tony.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Immortality is such a fascinating idea. I want to explore how and under what conditions an immortal might live in our world.

My story won't be anything like the story told in the film.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Tuck Everlasting? Yes, that's the one.

No, my story will be nothing like it. All I've stolen is the idea of immortality.

[sovay]

I didn't even know Tuck Everlasting had been made into a movie . . .

*mental note to self: avoid like the plague*