![]() A bold, but shrewd act of faith on his part. But my agent, the redoubtable Alan Gasmer, insisted I do or the network couldn’t have it. I was so green, in fact, that when I sold my first project (a story that became the TV movie GRAMPS, starring Andy Griffith), the buying network didn’t want me to write it. I was very new to the business (though not young by Hollywood standards I was 43). Bloody Flicks caught up with J.B to discuss bringing the story to life and how it could work as a modern-day, big-budget project.Ĭan you tell us how you got involved with adapting The Beast? This was the task set for new screenwriter J.B White in the mid-1990s as The Beast, a tale of a small coastal town terrorised by a giant squid was to become a TV mini-series.Ģ6 years later, outside of Jaws, The Beast remains one of the best Benchley adaptations. ![]() ![]() Adapting the work of Peter Benchley is no mean feat. ![]()
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