This is not the novel. This is the screenplay.
Live Feed: The Screenplay, with Storyboards and Adaptation Notes. The complete feature-length film adaptation of Fox Michaels' Everglades survival thriller, laid out the way a producer would read it.
A blueprint for survival
Miguel Santos was trying to get to work. Now he is Detainee 7743, in a facility that does not exist. The guards call it the Gator Farm. Subscribers call it the most exclusive streaming platform on the dark web.
The release? Forty-five miles of black water, a head start, and armed hunters tracking them by GPS while the cameras roll. And in that water, alligators that have been taught to hunt in packs.
He will not get out alone. An immigration attorney whose client has vanished from the federal record. A mother who will tear through anything to reach her son. A nursing student who knows exactly where to strike. An elder who has known this swamp her whole life. Together they refuse to follow the script.
- The full feature-length screenplay in true spec format, with the margins that make one page run one minute of screen time.
- Original storyboards. Six key scenes drawn as four-panel plates.
- Novel and script, side by side. Passages from the novel set against the same moments in the screenplay.
- Adaptation notes. What was cut, what was merged, and why.
For readers who want to see how it was done, and for writers sitting on a novel that should have been a film.
From the storyboard plates
Six scenes. Four panels each.
Each plate sits at its scene in the script, so you can see how a line of action turns into a shot.
The same moment, two ways
Novel and script, side by side
In the book, Carmen thinks like a lawyer building a case. On screen, all the camera gets is what she does about it.
Novel to Screen
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