The land of Mordor ("where the shadows lie, according to Tolkien) was played by Las Vegas. Only instead of a hobbit, my hero was a Texan named Stu Redman, and instead of a Dark Lord, my villain was a ruthless drifter and supernatural madman named Randall Flagg. Scott, but before it was released, I was deep into The Stand, finally writing my American fantasy epic, set in a plague-decimated USA.
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I remembered a news reporter saying, "If the winds had been blowing the other way, there was Salt Lake City." This incident later served as the basis of a movie called Rage, starring George C. That got me remembering a chemical spill in Utah that killed a bunch of sheep (these were canisters on their way to some burial ground they fell off the truck and ruptured).
I never forgot the gruesome footage of the test mice shuddering, convulsing, and dying, all in twenty seconds or less. When she finally captures his interest, she lies and tells him she's 16. Then, slowly after my wife and kids and I moved to Boulder, Colorado, I saw a 60 Minutes segment on CBW (chemical-biological warfare). Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring musician. So Simple Passion is a movie about something that, sooner or later, happens to lots of people, but the fun of this story is that it happens to someone we want to watch.
For a long time-ten years, at least-I had wanted to write a fantasy epic like The Lord of the Rings, only with an American setting. I’m not in the scheduling department, but it’d be sooner than later. Fortunately, Arbid didn’t want to make a movie about crazy people or about people going crazy, so she pursued a third option: She made the woman interesting.