Robin's Nest

First and foremost, I’m a writer. I fell in love with screenwriting after spending most of my childhood and early adolescence aspiring to be a novelist. When I reached college, however, I started reading scripts, became fascinated by filmmaking and have been in love with it ever since.

Feb 19

Caveat Lector: Thinking about Moffatiss's 'Sherlock' and what makes an 'adaptation'

Really I feel like ‘adaptation’ is the wrong word to use for ‘Sherlock’. What it is actually is a ‘re-imagining’, akin to how Ronald D. Moore ‘re-imagined’ Battlestar Galactica. It’s recognizable, but it’s not meant to be faithful. It’s meant to be its own story, with its own characters. The…

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breakerofshackles said: I just read this aloud to my boyfriend, because your are a genius.
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say.. I actually kind...totally ridiculous superhero element
nissanissas said: again tho if you’re going to reimagine it you have to do it drastically and make it clear that you’re reinventing the universe itself and not just transplanting the characters (like “house” did with the same universe). this is… not that.
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