The Running Wild Blog
Articles on the craft of filmmaking and the films we create.Our Kickstarter Campaign Launches!
Last night our Kickstarter campaign to make 52 shorts in 52 weeks launched as we celebrated past and future work at FilmBar in Phoenix. The campaign runs for 52 days and our goal is to raise $10,000. Check out the campaign here: Kickstarter. Watch the video below:...
52 of 52: James Joyce’s The Dead
52 of 52: James Joyce's The Dead Many consider James Joyce's The Dead to be the greatest short story ever written. I agree. The story of a Christmas celebration, it is about family, culture, tradition, love, marriage, youth, gender and death. John Huston adapted the...
100 CRIME FILMS: #10 THE LONG GOODBYE
Here is the latest in our video blog series 100 Crime Films. This time I discuss Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye.
51 of 52: Herman Melville’s Bartleby
51 of 52: Herman Melville's Bartleby Some might argue that Herman Melville is the great American writer. Such an argument has great weight with the three works to back it up: writer's masterpiece Moby Dick, his brilliant novella Billy Budd, and his magnificent short...
50 of 52: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Head and Shoulders
50 of 52: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Head and Shoulders I was excited to find a Fitzgerald story in the public domain. Many of the best stories from this century have yet to enter rights free status but this story Head and Shoulders is not only available but a great choice...
49 of 52: H.G. Wells’ The Country of the Blind
49 of 52: H.G. Wells' The Country of the Blind The writer of such science-fiction classics as War of the Worlds and The Time Machine, Wells and Jules Verne practically pioneered the genre. I couldn't help but want to dabble in it myself and I have chosen Wells' The...
48 of 52: Jack London’s A Piece of Steak
48 of 52: Jack London's A Piece of Steak I had to include Jack London in our series of 52 short story adaptations but his tales of survival in snowy landscapes were not the best choice to stage in the Arizona desert. Instead I picked A Piece of Steak, the story of a...
47 of 52: Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death
47 of 52: Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death The Masque of the Red Death is our fourth and final Edgar Allan Poe adaptation. The story of plague and the downfall of the elite, it is a true tale of horror. You can read the story here. Keep checking back...
46 of 52: Ring Lardner’s Harmony
46 of 52: Ring Lardner's Harmony The third and final Ring Lardner baseball story we will adapt in 2013. It is our 46th adaptation of public domain literature. You can read the story here. Keep checking back daily for new story announcements and more from Running Wild...
45 of 52: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown
45 of 52: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown Perhaps one of the greatest and certainly the most horrifying studies of religion, specifically Puritanism, ever put on paper, Nathaniel Hawthorne's story Young Goodman Brown has been long anthologized and studied...
