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is worrying … the appeal of channel 5 and all these tits
and canned laugh game, the idea that ‘art’ is just for
pretentious wanks etc. etc … All that worries me. But
virile art forms survive all kinds of upheavals. Even
with a dying readership people would still write novels
and some of them, great ones.
ZS: And are you working on the script for the film of
Morvern Callar, and do you think it’ll translate well to
a visual medium?
AW: I think Lynne Ramsay and Michael Caton Jones
are the most exciting filmmakers to come out of Scotland
since Bill Douglas so I’m over the moon they’re
each adapting one of my novels. Lynne is still working
BUY Alan Warner books online from and
on her screenplay of Morvern Callar in between her
busyness with the international success of Ratcatcher
which is surely one of the greatest films ever made in
Scotland. Alan Sharp, the Scottish novelist and Hollywood
screenwriter (Rob Roy, Night Moves, Ulzana’s
Raid) is working on The Sopranos for Michael. Lynne
and I will probably do a bit of work together on the final
screenplay, dialect and that, but I really Lynne’s vision,
she’s a real artist and I just want to go with her vision
of the film not mine. She’s even said she’ll let me in on
the editing so it should be exciting but with someone of
Lynne’s integrity you’ve just got to let them make the
movie they want. �
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