Un Scénario Posthume : L’Héritage de Shad Gaspard Prend Vie
Un projet cinématographique, fruit d’une collaboration entre Muhammad Hassan et le regretté Shad Gaspard, est en cours de développement. Hassan a récemment partagé des détails sur ce projet, révélant un parcours créatif riche et émouvant.
La Genèse d’une Collaboration
La rencontre entre Hassan et Gaspard remonte à l’époque de l’OVW (Ohio Valley Wrestling), où une amitié solide s’est nouée. ils partageaient une passion commune pour le cinéma et ont rapidement commencé à échanger des idées. Hassan se souvient :
So I met Shad when he came to OVW and he was beast. I had been down there for a little bit,maybe a couple of years. He came in and we started hanging out. There’s a group of us that spent all of our time together. We’d wrestle together. We’d go out to lunch. We’d hang out at night. I remember Shad used to bounce at a bar and we’d go see Shad at the bar.
Leur collaboration a débuté par un traitement de scénario envoyé par Gaspard à Hassan. Inspirés par des films qu’ils admiraient tous les deux, ils ont développé un concept original qui a évolué en un scénario complet. Ce projet a ensuite pris la forme d’un roman graphique, qui a été acquis et est maintenant en cours d’adaptation cinématographique. Hassan explique :
So he had sent one of the screenplays that he had written to me and at the time it was more like a treatment. It was small, but it was based on a couple of movies that we both really loved. We started talking about it and we came up with kind of a concept that was based on the original and then him and I started working back and forth until we expanded into a full length screenplay. A lot had happened in between the time that we had written that until now.But really that became a screenplay, became a graphic novel. Then the graphic novel got picked up and sold and then the graphic novel was now being turned into a screenplay. After Shad passed, his wife and I-his widow and I now-had been collaborating with a group called Scout Comics. They were the ones that originally had released it as a graphic novel.Scout’s goal and our goal was to eventually have this made into a movie. Really it’s funny, again, the screenplay made into a graphic novel, made back into a screenplay with some much needed updating.
Le saviez-vous ? Le processus d’adaptation d’un scénario en roman graphique, puis de retour en scénario, est une pratique de plus en plus courante dans l’industrie du divertissement, permettant d’explorer différentes facettes d’une même histoire.
L’Avancement Actuel du Projet
Le projet a franchi des étapes significatives.Une collaboration a été établie avec State street Productions, une société de production reconnue pour des films tels que “The Hate U Give” et le biopic de Bob Marley. Un scénariste et un réalisateur ont été engagés et travaillent actuellement sur la présentation du projet à de grands studios. Hassan reste optimiste :
So we’ve had a lot of movement on it. We signed with State Street Productions. They’ve done some big movies, The Hate U Give, the new Bob Marley movie that came out last year. They brought on a writer and a director and they’re currently working on the pitch and they’re pitching it to some major studios. So we definitely could use a little bit of luck, but it’s a solid screenplay. The idea is a great concept. It’s very unique. I haven’t seen anything like it in 20 years. Then the director, writer and the team that we have from Scout and State True that working on it really understand what Shad and I were kind of going for. They really understand our influence and they kind of absorbed the graphic novel and the screenplay, and then it came out through them in a very fresh and unique way. So I have a lot of hope. I try not to get too excited as the movie business, is like, ‘We’ll get back to you next week,’ and then a year later you hear, but it’s positive. It’s all been positive. So him and I, that’s been our heart and soul, and my goal is to get that produced and get it on screen just in Shad’s memory.
Conseil pratique : Dans l’industrie cinématographique, la patience est essentielle. Les projets peuvent prendre des années à se concrétiser, et il est important de rester persévérant et de maintenir une dialog ouverte avec toutes les parties prenantes.
Un Hommage à l’Amitié et à la Loyauté
La relation entre hassan et Gaspard était empreinte d’une profonde amitié et d’un respect mutuel. Hassan se souvient d’un moment crucial où gaspard a insisté pour partager équitablement les bénéfices du projet, même lorsque Hassan traversait une période financière difficile :
yeah.2008 / 2009 is when we started putting that down. The one thing that I’ll say about Shad is that when Shad took the idea of this screenplay, which I had mentioned before, and I won’t get into it, but it was directed by one of the major agencies because they wanted the star, the protagonist to be white and we wrote them as black because it was always supposed to be a vehicle for Shad. So the next idea was Shad was going to make this into a graphic novel. I had no money.This was the point in my life where everything was down. I was working at UPS overnight, putting myself through school, living in an apartment back in Syracuse, New York. I just said, ‘This is yours now. I can’t. I don’t have any money to give you.’ Shad said, ‘We’re 50 50 no matter what.’ He said, ‘I got you,’ and he even made me sign a contract having mentioned that we’re 50-50 no matter what. So that’s the kind of guy that Shad was. So the least I can do now is put everything I can into it with Sil, his wife, to get it on screen for him.
Pour Hassan,mener ce projet à bien est un hommage à la mémoire de Gaspard et à leur amitié indéfectible.
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