Writing the Script

I just finished doing the movie script of the book.  It was not easy.  At one point I really ran into a dead end where transferring the book to a movie script was almost impossible.  I just skipped over that part and wrote the rest.  It was easier when I went back to that part.

The idea was to make the movie a historical film that intertwines both of the conspiracy theories (Marlowe's and Shakespeare's) into a mystery movie that  puts the pieces together to offer the only possible solution. The novel is a little different.  It's a wild romp through 16th Century Elizabethan England -- kind of a rapidly unfolding detective narrative.  I had more space to fill it with comedy, intrigue, murder and an illicit love story. Although every detail in the book is based on facts and actual documents, the movie gives flesh and dialogue to all those caught in the conspiracy. 
The movie also exposes the scandalous real Shakespeare, with his sexual peccadilloes and mistresses, and reveals the world of Marlowe, who reveled in the gay world as did so many English kings at that time. However, Marlowe had to live his life as a fugitive while Shakespeare fronted for him and received all the glory.

Where I had plenty of space in the book to write almost anything I wanted to add, the movie script had to be shorter and so deciding what to leave out was a major problem.

Oh, well.  We'll see how it plays.