The Running Wild Blog
Articles on the craft of filmmaking and the films we create.20 of 52: Guy de Maupassant’s Useless Beauty
20 of 52: Guy de Maupassant's Useless Beauty Guy de Maupassant, a 19th century French writer, was responsible for telling many great stories. One of those is called Useless Beauty and it is our 20th adaptation to be filmed in 2013. You can read the story here. Keep...
100 CRIME FILMS: #5 NIGHT MOVES (1975)
Here is the fifth of our video blog series 100 CRIME FILMS:
19 of 52: James Joyce’s The Boarding House
19 of 52: James Joyce's The Boarding House James Joyce's short story The Boarding House is the 19th of our 52 adaptations. It is the story of what occurs in a boarding house with a young girl, her mother and one of the guests.You can read the story here. Keep checking...
18 of 52: Edgar Allan Poe’s The Man of the Crowd
18 of 52: Edgar Allan Poe's The Man of the Crowd Edgar Allan Poe only wrote one novel in his career but was responsible for an incredible collection of short work. The Man of the Crowd is the second of his stories which we will adapt in 2013. You can read the story...
100 CRIME FILMS: FRANTIC (1988)
Here is the fourth in our video blog series 100 CRIME FILMS:
17 of 52: Thomas Hardy’s The Three Strangers
17 of 52: Thomas Hardy's The Three Strangers Thomas Hardy wrote some of best novels in British literature such as The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. His work has been adapted to film many times and I am very excited to tackle...
16 of 52: James Joyce’s Two Gallants
16 of 52: James Joyce's Two Gallants Two Gallants, one of the stories in James Joyce's collection Dubliners is about two young men and the ways they both approach young women and "romance". Like other works by Joyce, it transcends its time and place to be one of the...
15 of 52: Kate Chopin’s The Locket
15 of 52: Kate Chopin's The Locket Kate Chopin's short stories are some of the best I have ever read. They paint a particularly complex and vivid image of women's lives that echoes the past and applies to the present. I have picked her story The Locket as our 15th...
14 of 52: Ambrose Bierce’s A Watcher by the Dead
14 of 52: Ambrose Bierce's A Watcher by the Dead The mystery of Ambrose Bierce has outweighed his own work. He rode off into Mexico never to be heard from again and many have speculated in fiction and outside of it about his fate. But he was a great short story writer...
13 of 52: James Joyce’s After the Race
13 of 52: James Joyce's After the Race And for our thirteenth story we have picked yet another Joyce story from Dubliners: After the Race. You can read the story here. Keep checking back daily for new story announcements and more from Running Wild Films. -Travis...
