Four Movie Inspirations for The Window by Dave Cole
In The Window, Brian Bingham is able to see into the future through an attic window. When it reveals his best friend’s death, Brian must find a way to change the future…or die trying.
While I don’t always know exactly where the inspiration for my books come from, these movies could have been somewhere in the back of my mind as I wrote The Window.
The Dead Zone – Based on The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Johnny Smith awakens from a coma years after a car accident with the ability to see a person’s future with a mere touch. After shaking the hand of an aspiring politician, Johnny sees a horrible future. Johnny resolves to kill the candidate before he rises in power. Great book and a decent adaptation of a Stephen King novel (not something I say often).
Minority Report – Based on Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
In the distant future, John Anderton is the head of the Precrime Division, where three mutant “precogs” can predict crimes before they occur, reducing the murder rate to zero. When Anderton learns he himself is predicted to kill a man in the coming week, he suspects he is being framed. He discovers the prediction was a “minority report”, where the precogs’ predictions didn’t all agree.
Next – Based on The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick
With the ability to see events just minutes before they happen, Cris Johnson works as a Las Vegas magician. When terrorists threaten to detonate a nuclear weapon in LA, the FBI approaches Cris to convince him to help her stop the upcoming apocalypse.
Tell Me How I Die (2016) – screenplay by James Hibberd
When a group of college students take part in a clinical drug trial, they begin to have visions of their own deaths. When the deaths begin to happen, they scramble to escape their own fate. They discover the killer can also see into the future. Can they survive when he always seems to be one step ahead of them?
The Window by Dave Cole
A dark window to the future…
Everything changed the day Brian Bingham looked out the attic window and saw something that wouldn't happen for another week. Through a mysterious window no one else can see, Brian gains a portal into the future. But the future is not always something he wants to see.
Brian has enough troubles in the present without worrying about the future. His parents are constantly fighting, his grades are plummeting, and his new relationship with Charlotte, a girl way out of his league, is in jeopardy.
When the window reveals his best friend's brutal death, Brian’s world is turned upside down. He must find a way to change the future…or die trying.
$13.95, 6x9 trade paperback, 170 pages
Print ISBN 9781939844767 / EBook ISBN 9781939844774
Young Adult – Paranormal (YAF045000) / Contemporary Fantasy (YAF019010) / Horror (YAF026000)
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Reviews
Resident Alien
New show on SyFy staring Alan Tudyk (Firefly/Serenity, Rogue One, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil).
From the IMDB: follows a crash-landed alien named Harry who takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor and slowly begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his secret mission on Earth.
The show and the characters are quirky. Think Northern Exposure and then add an alien whose mission is to kill all humans.
The show moves at a leisurely pace, punctuated by very funny, snarky asides from Tudyk. The alien learned how to speak English by watching Law and Order, so he also has a detective streak in him.
Again, the show is quirky, odd, and quite fun. Tudyk gets to be Tudyk at his snarky best.
Recommended!
The Little Things
From the IMDB: Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.
Staring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto.
This is a very slow burn psychological thriller. It would be an average movie at best if not for the outstanding cast. Washington and Leto give great performances. Leto was indeed one creepy dude!
It was worth it on HBO Max, but I would’ve been disappointed in the theater. (It came out on January 29 in theaters and on HBO Max, who has a deal with Warner Brothers.)
Watch if you’re a big fan of the actors.
Movies and Stuff
Christopher Plummer passed away last week at the age of 91.
His career spanned eight decades. Eight! Just incredible.
From Screenrant: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 writer and director James Gunn reveals he cried a lot while writing the script for the Marvel Studios threequel.
Thor is still rumored to be involved, especially as the Guardians are in the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder.
They are rebooting The Man Who Fell to Earth as a series.
From JoBlo: Oscar-nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor is set to lead the upcoming Paramount+ series The Man Who Fell to Earth. Based on the Walter Tevis novel and Nicolas Roeg’s cult classic 1976 film starring David Bowie, the series will follow a new alien character, played by Ejiofor, who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.
Ejiofor is a great choice and he’s been in countless films, including Serenity, Doctor Strange, and 12 Years a Slave.
Elephant’s Child posts weekly writing word prompts and this month, I got to supply four weeks’ worth of words!
They range from movies to series to bands and finally some random goofy words.
Go check it out and write a flash fiction piece.
Seen any of those movie inspirations for The Window? Watched Resident Alien yet? See The Little Things? Any news surprise you? And can you create a flash fiction piece based on the words at Elephant’s Child’s site?
Next Monday is a holiday, so I will be offline and return the following week.
Next Monday is a holiday, so I will be offline and return the following week.
