{"id":417,"date":"2011-06-02T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T11:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2011-06-02T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T11:59:23","slug":"schools-out-film-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/schools-out-film-news\/","title":{"rendered":"School&#8217;s Out film news"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The news story below appeared in Screen International yesterday, so I can \u00a0talk about it now. In brief: the film has got development funding, I&#8217;m on board as script consultant, and Oliver Milburn is writing and directing.<\/p>\n<p>I met with Oliver and Emma, the producer, a few weeks back. We got on famously and they\u00a0have\u00a0a good, strong take on the material. It&#8217;s all very exciting, I must say \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h3>Oliver S. Milburn to adapt feature version of School&#8217;s Out<\/h3>\n<p>The feature adaptation of Scott Andrews\u2019 boarding school set novel has received development funding from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/screenbase.screendaily.com\/funding\/641\">Screen South<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oliver S. Milburn is to adapt post apocalyptic boarding school novel\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/screenbase.screendaily.com\/films\/1920\">School\u2019s Out<\/a><\/em> for the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Andrews, who wrote the novel on which it is based, will work as a script consultant alongside Milburn, who is also being lined up to direct the film.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the second feature to come out of UK production company Multistory Films. Milburn also wrote and directed the company\u2019s debut feature\u00a0<em>The Harsh Light Of Day<\/em> which has just completed post.<\/p>\n<p>The project has secured development funding from regional screen agency\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/screenbase.screendaily.com\/funding\/641\">Screen South<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Producer Emma Biggins of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/screenbase.screendaily.com\/production-companies\/1388\">Multistory Films<\/a>, said Milburn had \u201coutlined an exciting action packed screenplay with a strong cultural subtext for\u00a0<em>School\u2019s Out<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Multistory Films is currently developing a slate of 9 films, including a co-production with Australia and a sci-fi short film, to be directed by Louisa Fielden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news story below appeared in Screen International yesterday, so I can \u00a0talk about it now. In brief: the film has got development funding, I&#8217;m on board as script consultant, and Oliver Milburn is writing and directing. I met with Oliver and Emma, the producer, a few weeks back. We got on famously and they\u00a0have\u00a0a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,11,4],"tags":[57,81,49],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abaddon-books","category-film","category-schools-out","category-the-afterblight-chronicles","tag-abaddon-books","tag-film","tag-schools-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}