Dang! Hollywood knocking on my door about the world of Yellow Dawn

Yellow Dawn – The Movie: could we see a Cthulhu Mythos apocalypse unleashed on mainstream?

Bunker down: a Cthulhu Mythos Apocalypse is coming ¦ Image – Svolvaer, Arctic Circle, by David J Rodger

Very exciting news:  Early last week I was contacted by a Hollywood screenwriter interested in the concept of Yellow Dawn – The Age of Hastur. We had a video call yesterday.  “It has legs,” he told me; “It’s an established world with fans and brings a radical new slant to the apocalyptic theme.”

During the call we fleshed out terms of agreement, then I talked him through all the USPs of Yellow Dawn as a global setting.  Ingredients, if you like, that we could work on together, selecting the most appropriate for studio taste in order to come up with a movie recipe. We broke the movie idea down into three parts and now have a general idea for the first and second parts. We’re doing another video call in a couple of weeks to nail down the third part, the ending. Then we’ll come up with a 2 page treatment.  He’s busy with other scripts at the moment so due to start writing the Yellow Dawn movie summer 2015. Then he starts pitching in LA. Ding dong!

Watch this blog or my Facebook page for updates.

It’s been a good month for Yellow Dawn. This news is on the back of  Chaosium Giving Green Light for Yellow Dawn Publishing Deal. Work now underway to write a 3rd edition of Yellow Dawn RPG adapting it to be used with 7th Edition Call of Cthulhu – allowing CoC players to drop their scenarios into the post-apocalyptic horror and action adventures of my novels.

Don’t wait for the movie to discover the amazing thrills of Yellow Dawn. Buy the novels today!

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3 NOVELS FROM THE YELLOW DAWN APOCALYPSE

• Dog Eat Dog
• The Black Lake
• The Social Club

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Street Art: Ghostbusters graffiti – Gozer Is Listening

Gozer Is Listening

Image from GhostbustersMania.com - Matt Prov - All Rights Reserved

It looks like the rumours about a proposed Ghostbusters III continue to swirl and circulate through different currents of opinion. Check the latest on Google for when is Ghostbusters III coming out and there’s a flux between Dan Akroyd saying it’ll go ahead in 2012 with or without Bill Murray and pundits saying that Murray is definitely in as his old alter-ego Venkman. Here’s hoping. :o)

I adore Ghostbusters. For me it epitomizes the experience of growing up in the 80’s and fond memories of one of the first times I got to hang out with girls at a cinema as a young teenager.  And bizarrely, it was one of the first things I reflected upon when at the age of 28 I first stepped foot in the United States – and New York, along with Jackson Alias, the blood cult author who gets brutally murdered in the Chelsea Hotel at the start of the Call of Cthulhu campaign Masks of Nyarlathotep.

Ghostbusters skims (very lightly) the genre of the Cthulhu Mythos, hinting at brooding, unknown and terrible gods that go beyond the usual ken of Demoniacal concepts and the Occult, used in such movies as The Ninth Gate and the cyberpunk horror novel Dante’s Fool.

Ghostbusters III for 2012? Bill Murray in his old role as Venkman - possibly

Some of my favourite quotes of the original Ghostbusters movie:

Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say “YES”!

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Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.

Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”?

Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.

Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!

Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…

Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!

Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!

Mayor: All right, all right! I get the point!

Good morning, I’m Roger Grimsby. Today, the entire Eastern Seaboard is alive with talk of incidents of paranormal activity. Alleged ghost sightings and related supernatural occurences have been reported across the entire Tri-State area.

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Dr. Egon Spengler: There’s something very important I forgot to tell you.

Dr. Peter Venkman: What?

Dr. Egon Spengler: Don’t cross the streams.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?

Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.

Dr. Peter Venkman: I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad”?

Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That’s bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

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Related Link

• GhostbustersMania.com: Cross the Streams radio show: Episode 14

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