Hey! Rob here! It’s been a while since I’ve uploaded anything. Honestly a little too long. It feels as though I say that a lot. Quite a bit has happened in the last year, pretty crazy how much in fact. I’ve become much more in tune with my desires to be a writer. It really is an amazing feeling to have the same passion for writing and storytelling that my twin brother, Trevor, has. I have my first budgeted short film in production right now. It’s called “VOLLY!!” My brother is one of the leads in the project, along with him being my co-writer. The logo is posted below. Here’s the link to the Twitter Page for more on that as it comes: VOLLEYTwitter
Cannot wait to share more!!!
Now onto the other reasoning for my post. I wanted to share a Walking Dead episode I wrote along with my brother. Our goal for writing this was to get into a fellowship with the NBC Writer’s Workshop as screenwriters. We didn’t make it in, but hey, as fans of the source material we had to try! So we put our brains together and decided to get back to the roots of TWD and write something a bit more personal, more character focused. Think of the critically lauded episode, “What Happened and What’s Going On.” This episode saw the final appearance of Tyreese, beautifully acted by Chad L. Coleman. I found this episode to be probably the most magnificently crafted episode of the series and one of the few that manages to bring me to tears every single time I see it.
Our goal was to write an episode that reached closer to that smaller, intimate sort of episode. One where we see the passing of a character, but in a way that slowly builds into it and leaves the viewer in shock at the end. A character that deserves a better ending, but doesn’t get one. One of our worst fears is dying alone and nobody ever knowing what happened to us. We were able to tackle this fear through a character focused journey between Daryl and Gabriel. While the episode is predominantly focused on Gabriel, we thought that the two of them could be an interesting pair to spend an hour with. What we did was set up pieces that would allow the characters to develop and grow in that set amount of time. It also gave us the chance to bring in probably the most terrifying threat in TWD, which would be The Whisperers.
Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard created a marvelous piece of storytelling and we feel honored to have had the chance to write an episode that featured our take on how the end of a character could bring about the Whisperer War. In every way that we could while writing this episode, we were careful to remain within the cannon of the comics/show that would accurately reflect what has happened. We hope that you enjoy our script and that it brings you the same joy we had writing it.
The Grand Discourse Called Life 