More Screenwriting Projects for 2007! - Updated Dec. 28, 2006
Now that I am involved in developing television series concepts
for ABC/Disney, I have two comedy spec scripts for pilots being pitched this round
(April) titled "We Live in Your Radio" (Actor/Writer Michael Boatman
is associated with this series pitch:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0090225/
and I have high hopes he will star in the series if it is picked up by ABC, he is currently under contract at FOX for a series, but if it is not picked up, who knows?) and
"Always, Steve", a comedy about a compressor salesman who is a divorcee with two older teenage kids he has custody of and who writes crazy stories in his spare time evenings, sharing them with his friends via the Internet. It is based on the writings of Steve Bussiere, whom Cyber-Pulp recently published (his first book is "The "Un" Real Texas", now available at the Cyber-Pulp Press website). I also have a reality show pilot up for grabs to the Disney
Channel titled: "Thinking Like Disney". It will feature young entreprenuers who are using their creativity and very little start-up capital to launch exciting new companies.
I also launched a Web Video Production Company (
FatCatWebProductions.com ) in the high income Spring/The Woodlands
area right outside Houston called Fat Cat New Media, and I am
presently producing short webisodes for the Veoh Video Network (where
Michael Eisner now lives). Our first web video shoot was 27 of
Dec. for a new series called: "Cowboy Church" a HeeHaw-type series
featuring "The Best of Country Music and Comedy" at the Track Shack in Spring, Texas. My business
partners and I also have plans to build a state-of-the-art
music/film/digital production studio here in the next year or so to do
commercials, television shows and music videos for the web and for
traditional television, it will be known as Fat Cat Studios (but our
code name for the project now is "Mollywood", because I promised my
daughter when she was little that I would create her her own Hollywood
someday).
More breaking news as it happens ; )
Four Bob Gunner Screenplays!
Well, Halloween is over, and we are heading into the Thanksgiving and Christmas season. When we moved into our new home the June before last, we did not have strings of lights for the outside of our home. My wife Liz remedied this at after-Christmas sales last year. So if you just happen to be traveling through the Timber Lane subdivision in Spring, Texas, and see a guy hanging from the roof, it will most probably be me...
In addition to my novel and other book projects this year, I am also working on four movie screenplays. Three of them are based-on-true-story projects and one is based on one of my published short stories, and I am very excited about how they are coming along!
The first is titled: "Wonder Weaver: The Secrets of Charles Dellshau..." and it tells the story of a German immigrant who may have been a member of a secret society of inventors who built and flew airships from California to Texas and beyond in the mid 1800's before there was any documentation of such flights!
The second one is a project very personal to me, because it tells the story of victims of the Houston Mass Murders in 1972-73, when Dean Corll and Elmer Wayne Henley kidnapped and killed 27 or more boys. This film will tell the story of how a young journalist tries to understand what the families of the victims went through when their children went missing and they tried to get local law enforcement authorities to help locate them. It is a heart-breaking tale of one of before the implementation of the Amber Alert System and how young boys were considered runaways and it was left at that. My childhood friend was one of these boys, and I hope to finally tell the world the truth about this almost forgotten crime and the victims.
The third project is the story of the Crash-Landrum UFO incident that took place in Huffman, Texas, in December of 1980. Probably one of the best documented UFO sighting cases in American history, this follows the story of Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and 7-year-old Colby Landrum who encountered a UFO being escorted by two military helicopters as they traveled a lonely country road. Was it a top-secret government stealth spy plane project known as "Aurora", or a crippled space craft visiting from another world?
The Fourth project is a teen horror-feature based on my published short story "Midnight Double Feature" that appeared in Cyber-Pulp's Halloween Anthology 2.0.
I plan to very busy on the writing side in 2006, and this makes me very happy. If you are a producer or studio interested in reviewing these scripts for possible option, drop me an email!
My Favorite Day of the Year: Halloween is Coming!
It's definately my favorite day of the year (Christmas is a close second of course ), and I am really ready for the Halloween season this year! My wife Liz, daughter Molly Rose, and son Bobby, are preparing to decorate our house in Spring, Texas, with the traditional 'boogeyman' props and paraphernalia to scare the heck out of the rest of our subdivision. I was also inspired to revamp my website for those wonderful readers out there that have been buying and spreading the word about my published short and long fiction on the Internet, in eBooks, and in trade paperbacks over the past few years. Thank you so much for the nice emails and letters guys and gals, for they are the real encouragement that keeps me inspired to do more. I have been neglecting my working projects for the past couple years as I partnered and managed some small press publishing projects, and worked a full-time job that sometimes left with me little free-time to pursue my writing. But, in the past few months, this has changed. I have reduced my small press projects to 4-6 a year, and I have begun writing on a regular schedule once again. My latest short story "Urban Echo" appears in Grimoire de Solace vol. II: Milking Blood for Poison Pens edited by Christopher Heath and published jointly by Cyber-Pulp Press and Heathen Oracle, along with tales by other wonderful story-tellers including: Jon-Michael Felix, Steven Shrewsbury, J. Patrick Huston, Christopher Fulbright, Angeline Hawkes-Craig, Jonah Lissner, Joseph Gay, Shawn P. Madison, Peter J. Welmerink, Brian Grisham, Jon-Michael Felix & J. Patrick Huston, Sean Wagner, and Christopher Heath. This anthology is available at at Lulu.com and at most major online book stores.
Under a Veil of Darkness...The Short Collected Fiction of Bob Gunner
If you have not had the opportunity, you can still pick up a copy of the trade paperback of my first collection: Under a Veil of Darkness exclusively at Lulu.com. You will find stories about cock roaches, faeries, and several assorted flavors of monsters in this one. And be watching in late 2007 for my second collection: Icehouse at the End of the Galaxy..., a journey into the dark side of Texas. Where I get in touch with my Lone Star roots on a very unusual level! This is one you certainly won't want to miss.
Get in the Halloween Spirit with the Halloween 3.0 Trade Paperback!!!
Cyber-Pulp's Halloween 3.0 which I both edited and contributed to, is still available exclusively at Lulu.com, so you'll want to grap a copy real quick (It goes out of print in January!) This is a massive anthology featuring an introduction by writer Michael Boatman (Boatman is also an actor. He co-starred for six seasons on the ABC comedy SPIN CITY and for seven seasons on the HBO series ARLISS. His short stories appear in HORROR GARAGE number 9, and at SuperheroFiction.com, and ApocalypseFiction.com. He is currently working on his second novel and several television and film projects. He lives in Upstate New York with his wife and four children.) and featuring 44 tales from established and up-and-coming Small Press writers.
Midnight Posse featuring an intro by Joe R. Lansdale!
I edited and contributed to this anthology of six Weird Western tales. Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale. Stories: Reflections of a Dead Cowboy by Bob Gunner, Heller by G.W. Thomas, Riders Where There are no Roads by David Bain, Madam Chang's Red Dragon Saloon by Angeline Hawkes-Craig, Manhunter by Richard D. Weber, and Threat of Rain by J.D. Kluth. Available exclusively at Lulu.com