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... I was feeling nostalgic for a place,
In later years I would find myself regularly revisiting my memories of The Diamond of Jeru and remembering how much I had enjoyed "living" in that world during the time I had worked on the novella and then writing and producing the film. I even took an extended vacation back to Australia and New Zealand. One afternoon I walked around downtown Brisbane and stopped off at the old parliament house, the building we had used for the Marudi District Officer's Residence. Since there were no events planned, it was locked up, seeming almost forgotten. I sat on the back porch until the sun went down feeling very strange, disconnected from some reality or unreality; it had been a fictional place in my fictional world ... I was feeling nostalgic for my fictional recreation of Marudi, a place that had never really existed.
After finishing Son of a Wanted Man, I was asked by an executive at Random House Audio if I had any plans for another Dramatized Audio. I was happily surprised because I hadn't been sure that they'd actually want another. Thinking about it I decided I didn't want to do another western but I did want to do something that had a very distinct sound and was definitely existed in it's own time and place.
While the film script for The Diamond of Jeru had to run 89 minutes, the finished Audio was required to run around twice as long. That difference would allow a lot more room to expand the story so I could play with several themes and aspects of the plot that would add breadth and depth to the story. I got in touch with USA Cable and we quickly came to an agreement for me to use the script (which was their property) as the basis for an Audio Dramatization. Viagra for covid treatment dig this buy tadalafil no prescription. Cialis online buy just click the up coming page sildenafil pfizer 100mg, canadian pharmacy for cialis a cool way daily tadalafil 5mg. Generic cialis pills investigate this site generic cialis 10mg; cialis vs. viagra see post tadalafil equivalent for women, viagra after eating look here generic cialis 2017 usa, combining tadalafil and sildenafil visit this site right here levitra remédio, erectile dysfunction cream click here gabapentin erectile dysfunction; acheter cialis moins cher explains cialis strengths available, who prescribes cialis company site best vitamins for erectile dysfunction; home made viagra for male as reported here what is considered erectile dysfunction. Viagra gas station relevant web site tens unit erectile dysfunction, common side effects viagra visit medicament kamagra, tadalafil 5 mg goodrx coupon top post does cialis raise testosterone levels. Viagra or cialis for sale check out the post sildenafil 60 mg side effects, viagra high he has a good point tadalafil 80mg tablets, bob dole viagra homepage sildenafil performance anxiety As I started filling in the additional material it was amazing how several of the characters, particularly Raj, Inghai, and Jeru, came to life in completely new ways. The Audio Play ended up being just as much an adaptation of the film script as the film script had been an adaptation of the novella ... each wonderful in their own way but also a completely separate beast. |
Several possible stories were considered but rejected because the time needed to get a script together was too great or they didn't have the right mixture of characters ... I especially wanted to have a strong female lead. Since I already had written the movie script to The Diamond of Jeru, I figured that could become the foundation for an Audio Play as easily as had Son of a Wanted Man. Sarawak of the 1950s would surely have it own wonderfully exotic palette of sounds, the sense of the time period in the dialogue would be as distinct as a western, and the sound of mid twentieth century technology seemed to be rapidly becoming as out of date as that of the nineteenth! In many ways it was perfect.