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Buffy writer wanted for Shadowmancer
2 February

According to the Whitby Today website, movie bosses are targeting Buffy creator Joss Whedon to write the script for Graham Taylor's first book, Shadowmancer.

The former Curate of Whitby sold the movie rights to Fortitude Films last year in a deal thought to have been worth £3 million. Now Fortitude and its partner Universal are looking to take on a scriptwriter to help take the best-selling fantasy novel to the silver screen.

They are keen to land Whedon, whose writing credentials also include Toy Story and Alien Resurrection.

If all goes to plan, filming is likely to take place next year, with much of it on the coast between Scarborough and Whitby.

Mr Taylor said: "They have it farmed out to six or seven scripwriters.

"Once the script has been sorted they can go from pre-production to production and start filming. Universal and Fortitude want Joss Whedon who created Buffy the Vampire Slayer to do it.

"He's their number one choice and he is my number one choice, but he might be busy because he's already working on another project with Universal."

Whedon has written or written several movies including Toy Story - for which he received an Oscar nomination - Alien Resurrection and Titan AE as well as writing and directing the Firefly movie, Serenity. He also wrote uncredited drafts or rewrites of Speed, Waterworld, Twister and X-Men, although little of his work remained in the final drafts. back to the top