Another College Story! Here goes…
In my sophomore year of College, during the spring semester, I found myself nearly being burnt out, or somehow just plain falling apart (A feeling that has yet to fully go away). It was during that time that I figured that I needed to do something.
So I wrote a film script. I wanted to capture the feeling of swashbuckling adventure, and to do it in a crazy awesome manner. So I wrote a story involving a space pirate, trying to marry the baroque period and the nature of space (In other words, something like Treasure Planet, with some modicum of logic in the ship design, complete with an original story).
It took me two years to finish this script. Meanwhile, I ended up drawing exactly what the protagonist would look like, and even what the ship looks like. When I wrote past sixty pages, I had to power through the maddening second act, and almost didn’t finish it.
Below is the script proper. Feel free to take a look if you dare. Also included is a selection of pieces that give a level of what the film might have looked like. Eventually I hope to retool this tale and eventually turn it into something actually presentable…
Below are two pictures of the hero, Captain Igor James Yorrick:
This was a depiction from a scene that never made it into the script:
An Early Concept of the titular ship:
And Finally the script itself: