Darkness Rising
Today, I have put Nowhere Land's pilot to bed!! Yep, pretty happy with it at the moment. Printed it for some folks to read and hopefully give feedback, some have it via email, so hopefully it will be liked and I can then work up the courage to send it off. Kinda scared because I might have lost what was liked originally.
Anyway...
Darkness Rising is about to go into the writing stages for the first time in about three years. Fuck me has it really been three years... why yes otherwise i would be fucking lying and writing three years for no good reason what so ever! Dumbass. Anyway, three years. lot has changed in three years.
Darkness Rising was my driving force once. It was (as pathetic as it sounds) was my diary. A lot of things i was dealing with when i started writing it back in 2000 (thats six years ago!!!) were played out in DR as it was also called. Problems with girls, my thoughts on love and life and depression and hatred and forgiving and fucked up fuck ups... it was all there. I remember writing four episodes back to back in a week which is totally insane and reading them back they aint great, but the heart of it, the soul of it and the point of it is fucking great, just structure is a bit shit and my writing has come along leaps and bounds since then. Whether it is any good now is not the fucking point, point is i have improved. Darkness Rising was a religion for me, it was written on everything i had, i roped people into it - - i even got a website set up in 2001 where you could view art work and read the scripts.
Darkness Rising pretty much started life as me wanting to write X files and Millennium. Both were shows i loved and worshipped. So i started writing. i had no computer so everything was hand written. First thing i wrote was something called Secret Orchestra, a show about the MOD and a secret unit they had to investigate all manner of weird things like Angels and UFOs and Aliens and Serial Killers and how they were all connected. It was cool but shitty, really didn;t know where it was going, but i was in my teens, so what the fuck did i know. it was when i was studying a levels that DR started to manifest. Through notes and endless amounts of lined paper with story ideas written down i kinda came up with an idea for a show or a movie, i think at the time it was a movie. I was taking medai studies and we had to come up with an idea for an 18 certificate film and i was paired up with this hot girl named Caroline and she had no idea what to do. And me being the sad git i was and still am had all my notes and paperwork on me concerning DR and i remember slamming it down on the table thinking i was cool saying we were going to do this and she just looking at me terrified. Girls eh, don;t know cool if it bit em on the arse!
Anyway, a friend of mine looked at a treatment i had written and gave it back a few days later with notes in the margine taking the piss out of it and it made me laugh so much that i decided to keep the piss take notes and write them into the new treatment. Darkness Rising was pretty much born then and there.
Seven meets Monty Python meets The X Files. That pretty much sums it up i think.
I had managed to write two and half seasons before life got in the way and i lost what was DR. I found myself unable to write it and lost the momentum.
Season one was comprised of about 11 episodes, but was cut down to about 8 because some were shit or not finished or both. It was written by myself, my friends Adam Boothroyd and Chris Ammon (bet he doesn't remember that, i still have what was written). It was about John Ryan joing a new unit at scotland Yard called the VCD that carried hand guns and chased serial killers. The first season dealt with Johns divorce, his wifes death, the disappearance of his partner and the reappearance and then disappearance of his long lost love as well as a serial killer named Michael Elliot who wanted to get into Hell and come back to earth as a general and help usher in the end of the world and share in the power when the end came. And John kept on being reffered to as the Luminary??
Season 2 was great. Eight episodes written all on me own, dealing with Johns death and ressurection and him slowly coming to realise who he was in the greater scheme of things.
Season 3 what there was of it was also great. I think five or six episodes were written by myself, Dan Gitsham and an online friend who sadly i have lost contact with called Andrea.
Episode names people...
Season 1:
3B79: Pilot
3B01: Blue
3B03: Dead Cells
3B04: Among Myselves
3B05: Guilty
3B06: Restrictions
3B07: White Worm
3B08: Always Never
3B09: Severed
3B10: When Heaven and Hell Collide Part One
Season2
4B01: Antipas Part Two
4B02: Shadow Of Memories
4B03: Lamentations
4B04: Army of Me
4B05: Spiders
4B06: Monuments Burn Part One
4B07: Broken World Part Two
4B08: Any Day Now Part Three
Season3
5B01: Images of Darkness
5B02: Persistence of Vision
5B03: Pied Piper
5B04: That Day
5B05: Dog
5B06: Mad Cows and Englishmen
5B07: Emanations Part One
5B08: Fire Part Two
(Titles in red were either never finished or never written)
So there you have it. DR is being redrafted, hopefully gonna start today. It will be a different beast, a better beast. Stay tuned if you give a fuck.
Namaste!
CURRENT MOOD: Relaxed
CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: The Album Leaf
CURRENTLY WATCHING: Lost 2 (Yay my DVD!!!), Veroncia Mars 2, 4400 3, Millennium 1
CURRENTLY READING: Fell, The Cross Bronx, Elephantmen, Detective Comics, Girls, Y The Last Man, 52!!
Anyway...
Darkness Rising is about to go into the writing stages for the first time in about three years. Fuck me has it really been three years... why yes otherwise i would be fucking lying and writing three years for no good reason what so ever! Dumbass. Anyway, three years. lot has changed in three years.
Darkness Rising was my driving force once. It was (as pathetic as it sounds) was my diary. A lot of things i was dealing with when i started writing it back in 2000 (thats six years ago!!!) were played out in DR as it was also called. Problems with girls, my thoughts on love and life and depression and hatred and forgiving and fucked up fuck ups... it was all there. I remember writing four episodes back to back in a week which is totally insane and reading them back they aint great, but the heart of it, the soul of it and the point of it is fucking great, just structure is a bit shit and my writing has come along leaps and bounds since then. Whether it is any good now is not the fucking point, point is i have improved. Darkness Rising was a religion for me, it was written on everything i had, i roped people into it - - i even got a website set up in 2001 where you could view art work and read the scripts.
Darkness Rising pretty much started life as me wanting to write X files and Millennium. Both were shows i loved and worshipped. So i started writing. i had no computer so everything was hand written. First thing i wrote was something called Secret Orchestra, a show about the MOD and a secret unit they had to investigate all manner of weird things like Angels and UFOs and Aliens and Serial Killers and how they were all connected. It was cool but shitty, really didn;t know where it was going, but i was in my teens, so what the fuck did i know. it was when i was studying a levels that DR started to manifest. Through notes and endless amounts of lined paper with story ideas written down i kinda came up with an idea for a show or a movie, i think at the time it was a movie. I was taking medai studies and we had to come up with an idea for an 18 certificate film and i was paired up with this hot girl named Caroline and she had no idea what to do. And me being the sad git i was and still am had all my notes and paperwork on me concerning DR and i remember slamming it down on the table thinking i was cool saying we were going to do this and she just looking at me terrified. Girls eh, don;t know cool if it bit em on the arse!
Anyway, a friend of mine looked at a treatment i had written and gave it back a few days later with notes in the margine taking the piss out of it and it made me laugh so much that i decided to keep the piss take notes and write them into the new treatment. Darkness Rising was pretty much born then and there.
Seven meets Monty Python meets The X Files. That pretty much sums it up i think.
I had managed to write two and half seasons before life got in the way and i lost what was DR. I found myself unable to write it and lost the momentum.
Season one was comprised of about 11 episodes, but was cut down to about 8 because some were shit or not finished or both. It was written by myself, my friends Adam Boothroyd and Chris Ammon (bet he doesn't remember that, i still have what was written). It was about John Ryan joing a new unit at scotland Yard called the VCD that carried hand guns and chased serial killers. The first season dealt with Johns divorce, his wifes death, the disappearance of his partner and the reappearance and then disappearance of his long lost love as well as a serial killer named Michael Elliot who wanted to get into Hell and come back to earth as a general and help usher in the end of the world and share in the power when the end came. And John kept on being reffered to as the Luminary??
Season 2 was great. Eight episodes written all on me own, dealing with Johns death and ressurection and him slowly coming to realise who he was in the greater scheme of things.
Season 3 what there was of it was also great. I think five or six episodes were written by myself, Dan Gitsham and an online friend who sadly i have lost contact with called Andrea.
Episode names people...
Season 1:
3B79: Pilot
3B01: Blue
3B03: Dead Cells
3B04: Among Myselves
3B05: Guilty
3B06: Restrictions
3B07: White Worm
3B08: Always Never
3B09: Severed
3B10: When Heaven and Hell Collide Part One
Season2
4B01: Antipas Part Two
4B02: Shadow Of Memories
4B03: Lamentations
4B04: Army of Me
4B05: Spiders
4B06: Monuments Burn Part One
4B07: Broken World Part Two
4B08: Any Day Now Part Three
Season3
5B01: Images of Darkness
5B02: Persistence of Vision
5B03: Pied Piper
5B04: That Day
5B05: Dog
5B06: Mad Cows and Englishmen
5B07: Emanations Part One
5B08: Fire Part Two
(Titles in red were either never finished or never written)
So there you have it. DR is being redrafted, hopefully gonna start today. It will be a different beast, a better beast. Stay tuned if you give a fuck.
Namaste!
CURRENT MOOD: Relaxed
CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: The Album Leaf
CURRENTLY WATCHING: Lost 2 (Yay my DVD!!!), Veroncia Mars 2, 4400 3, Millennium 1
CURRENTLY READING: Fell, The Cross Bronx, Elephantmen, Detective Comics, Girls, Y The Last Man, 52!!
posted by lamp post at 9/21/2006 12:47:00 PM
2 Comments:
I was just clearing out my favs folder and I stumbled across this place. I thought it would be long gone and here I find you still chugging on. Heh.
I bet you didn't expect this old face appearing out of nowhere heh.
You know what's scary, I still have most the website stuff for DR backed up somewhere.
PS. glad you stopped smoking, good lad
Hey inn!!!
Cool that you dropped by! And cool that you have DR stuff, would love to see it as i have no idea what the hell happened to any of the stuff that we both did for that site. Email me if you get a chance as i am pretty damn awful at making sure i do so. I will try though, would be cool to catch up.
take it easy...
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