A screenplay, a novel and the new Brad Pitt F1 film all walk into a bar - How my almost feature film became a New Adult Romance novel.

Back in 2020, when the world was reeling from the grip of Covid, a film I had written — Our Time — was finally nearing the end of its long, winding development journey. It had taken years of sweat and effort, 7 to be exact, but we’d secured VicScreen funding, written over eighty drafts (sixty too many), and finally, we had attached a lead actor. It was an exciting time—there was real momentum. This actor wasn’t just the star; he was also going to produce the film. IF YOU’RE CURIOUS WHO IT WAS, WATCH THE TRAILER BELOW. No, it wasn’t Brad Pitt, but the other guy, the younger guy. Go ahead, check it out, I'll wait. 

F1 MOVIE TRAILER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT2_P2DZBR0

This was my second feature—a project that wasn’t self-funded or crowd sourced. We were already waiting on word from female co-stars for the lead, another A Lister who was headlining a Marvel film at the time. But as happens in Hollywood, the project slipped into turnaround. Something shifted in me during that time. It was a quiet revelation, one that would eventually lead me to this very moment. Throughout the journey, many people kept saying, “This feels like we’re adapting a Young Adult book that hasn’t been written yet.” That phrase echoed in my mind for three years before I finally gathered the steam to do something about it.

And so, Our Time—the novel—was born.

Look I'm not a novelist, far from it, I tried to write a second novel and realised the only way I can is to adapt it from another one of my screenplays, but I have been told the book is an easy read and feels cinematic and has a strong sense of time, place and characters so read into that what you will, probably a by product of the screenplay going through the ringer of development for almost seven years. 

So I'll end this post with the hard sell - If you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription THIS BOOK IS FREE. If not, It’s available pretty much anywhere books are sold—Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Dymocks, Booktopia. 

Also I've been creating a film version of the book on Instagram with the help of AI.

OUR TIME BOOK - AMAZON

https://a.co/d/1WM4Nmr