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Film Courage: This is work you did from 1979?
Donald F. Glut, Writer, Film Director, and Screenwriter: 1979, work-for- hire, one shot story, done as kind of a joke.
Film Courage: Was this an opportunity that was an interesting thing where someone else might have turned it down?
Don: I was at another party at Rick Oberg’s, the artist house and the editor Roy Thomas was there. Rick and I were coming up with all these crazy ideas for potential what if stories. I don’t even know who came up with the idea (I think it was me), I said What if Thor, what if the hammer was found by Jane Foster? We had a couple drinks, we were a little bit loose, coming with crazier and crazy ideas. We went up to Roy Hey, what do you think of this Because he turned down a bunch of the ones we came up with and he said Yeah, that sounds like a good idea, run with it.
The next day I was busy working out the story. See in Marvel the way you wrote a story was different. Every company had their own method. When I’m working now doing these Shudder and Vampiress Carmilla stories, you write a script like a movie script pretty much. You describe everything and give everybody dialogue. When I worked at Gold Key Comics it was more you got sat down with a sheet because they were used to working with cartoonists, you got a sheet of paper and you ruled off with a ruler where the panels would go and then you would write in each rectangle or square what was going on. If you went off beyond the line, you got too much on the page.
With Marvel, you would talk to the artist, you would write up a synopsis. The synopsis might be one paragraph or two paragraphs and you give it to the artist and the artist would draw it up any way he wants and then you would get the art back and you would get these penciled…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Donald F. Glut has been active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966. Don has had a long and varied career. He has been a professional musician, actor, film director, executive producer, photographer, magazine editor, proofreader and (very briefly, for an advertising agency) copywriter, but is mostly known for his long career as a freelance writer. He has written and directed feature-length motion pictures, documentaries and music videos, authored approximately 80 fiction and non-fiction published books, myriad TV scripts (live action and animation shows, network and syndicated), comic-book scripts, short stories, magazine articles, even music and theatre. He has been involved with numerous popular franchises such as Star Wars, The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Jonny Quest and many others, and created original comic-book characters for Gold Key, Marvel and DC.
Arguably Don is best known for his novelization of the second “Star Wars” movie The Empire Strikes Back (#1 Best Seller). Don currently executive-produces, writes and directs “traditional-style” horror for his company Pecosborn Productions, and writes scripts for The Creeps horror comics magazine. Also, he is a Southern California representative of Las Vegas Talent Agency. Note: Any motion picture titles that may be listed prior to Dinosaur Valley Girls (1997) are of amateur movies, the first of 41 of which Don Glut made when he was nine years old.
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