Fuckin' Coincident

I don't read Premiere magazine except for their annual Hollywood Power 100 issue-Gotta know who to smooch to get my films green lighted. However, by some heavenly design, I picked up the October issue of the magazine and read through it. And I came across this little paragraph.

"Yuen Wo-ping will direct the kung fu epic Snow and the Seven, which Pulitzer-winning novelist Michael Chabon has adapted from - you guessed it - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Expect Shaolin monks in place of Sleepy and Dopey."

I'm so fucked!

The basic concept of adapting the fairy tale is similar to my script, Princess and Seven Assassins! This is when I finally finished the script after toiling it for 3 years, submitted to a screenplay contest, rewriting to put on the block for my first sale! FU~CK!

I calmed down little after hopping like a mad man in a subway station-not a good idea during this time of war on terror. Judging by the little info on that paragraph, it's set in China with kung fu masters instead of my modern spin of international world class killers hoping around the globe. Hopefully it won't have a big showdown in New York/Big Apple like mine. (Clever huh?) Still, they took that similar concept into an actual action movie in production is just... incredible. I felt my script had a good hook and now it has somewhat diminished 'fresh concept' for the industry people.

Snow: "A retelling of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" set in British colonial China, where Shaolin monks take in a refuge girl."

Mine: "Inspired by "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", a group of assassins must protect a beautiful princess of Middle East kingdom from persistent assassination attempts during her trip around the world.”

So, I felt little better, and I actually want to see this movie after disappointed by Tsui Hark’s Seven Swords. The lesson here is that if you got a good story idea, write it down, develop it, get it out before anyone else. Stake your claim on the story/concept and if it's good enough to get people excited to get behind it, it will be made into a movie. A good story/concept will always make its way to the screens-I'm dead serious about that sentence. And there's actually a Korean fable about that which I believe it could be made into a nice movie. :-)