Flicks, like books, in some cases have humble beginnings.

Don’t forget the film The Elephant Male? It was a real tale about a nineteenth century sideshow freak who was saved by a doctor portrayed in the motion picture by Anthony Hopkins.

THE ELEPHANT Guy, portrayed by the late John Damage, continues to be a gold typical for suave cinematic creativity these days. The film is from Academy Award winning movie producer Jonathan Sanger.

How did this motion picture occur about? Was it an agent’s pitch? No.

Was it an award profitable script? No.

Did professional screenwriters generate this masterpiece? No.

Was it adopted from a guide? No.

Not too long ago my business Westwind Book Marketing and advertising organized a e book signing and specific major screen displaying of The Elephant Gentleman at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Jonathan Sanger released the film to quite a few hundred individuals exactly where he retold the outstanding story of how this movie came about dependent on his new ebook: Building THE ELEPHANT Gentleman – A PRODUCER’S MEMOIR.

Where by did the script occur from?

His babysitter handed it to him to read through! That is proper, his babysitter. Sanger took the script and claimed he’d read it and instantly set it apart… for about a yr. Then a single day he arrived again from a excursion opened his desk drawer and there it was… staring at him like an obligation.

What did he do? He study it – and he loved it!

His reserve “Earning the Elephant Gentleman: A Producer’s Memoir” presents us an insider’s glance at the development of 1 of the 1st ever indie films and a box-office environment smash, as perfectly as a peek into the early occupations of motion picture greats David Lynch, Mel Brooks and Anthony Hopkins.

If you want to make your guide into a motion picture then this reserve will enable you realize the intricacies of the myriad elements of generating a movie. Sanger requires his encounter as the producer of THE ELEPHANT Male and opens a powerful dialogue on the evolution of cinema, from how he ‘discovered’ the script published by ‘unknowns’ Christopher DeVore and Eric Bergren discovering “it was exactly the variety of story I would want to make, a historical biography about a wretched soul who experienced nevertheless lived an incredible lifestyle” – the accurate tale of 19th century grossly deformed John Merrick, recognised as the Elephant Person doing the job in a sideshow in London who was dealt with by a kind Dr. Treves.

“When I wrote this, I was educating a class in independent movie and applying my knowledge with this film to instruct,” suggests Sanger. “I understood that it would be excellent to get these tales down and put them in a e book.” For every film he can make, Sanger keeps a notebook about the crew, the schedules, what they purchased for lunch, and other details. He was able to tap into notes from 30 decades back that introduced the whole system up new in his mind, including the robust emotions that gripped him upon initially studying the script..

Brooklyn born Jonathan Sanger is a really highly regarded producer and director of important movies, tv sequence, and theatrical productions, obtaining attained twenty Academy Award nominations, and profitable a few.

In 1976, Sanger moved to Los Angeles, where he worked for Lorimar Tv on network television collection The Blue Knight and 8 Is Enough. In 1978 he was Mel Brooks’ Assistant Director on Higher Anxiousness, which led to a long specialist association. For Brooks’ spouse, Anne Bancroft’s feature directorial debut movie Fatso, Sanger served as Associate Producer. For the duration of this period Sanger had acquired the legal rights to the script of The Elephant Guy – his to start with creation which led to a thriving job in each manufacturing and directing movies – films this sort of as Frances, Without Limits, Vanilla Sky, Flight of the Navigator, The Producers, and Code Title: Emerald.

The Bottom Line: Tap into your close friends, loved ones, prolonged network and don’t be bashful about acquiring your composed operate delivered to the proper man or woman. Make a record of ‘who you know’ and get to it!

Making THE ELEPHANT Person – A PRODUCER’S MEMOIR, in Paperback and Kindle is available on Amazon or on the author’s web-site www.JonathanSangerProductions.com