Comments on: Player

By: C.L. Anderson

C.L. Anderson — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:23:51 +0000

He’d probably have a nick-name of some sort, or even a series of them, and of course his mother and grandmother would call him Samuel. Or one could go the route that he changed his name when he fled the country
And naturally, he’d need a last name. Dooley or Wilson spring to mind as possibilities.
The truly fun part would be if anybody realized what I posit Sam doing is the speculation that Claude Rains’ character performs on Rick:
“Did you embezzel the company funds? Run off with a senator’s wife? I like to think you killed a man, it’s the romantic in me…”

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:06:01 +0000

Wow, this is a great idea.
You know, there are a lot of Casablanca fans out there. I wonder if Warner would be receptive to this book. You might want to pursue that angle.
Personally, I think it would make a wonderful film too.
Would you make it clear from the start who Sam is, or would you call him another name (Samuel, maybe?) and perhaps muddy the other characters’ identities a bit, so that the reader gradually realizes where this story is from?
Then again, if this became a book, it would obviously be marketed as a Casablanca prequel, so there would be no point in trying to surprise the reader RE character identities. You could, however, surprise them by revealing twists to the story they already know so well.

By: C.L. Anderson

C.L. Anderson — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:31:41 +0000

Oh, I’d do it straight. There’s way, way more than enough you could do here without adding the fantastic to it.

By: Kyle M.

Kyle M. — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:57:18 +0000

Hmmm…this is an interesting idea. Would you keep it straight to the espionage/thriller angle or would you work in a science fiction or fantasy element in there? I think this would play out wonderfully if you either went straight with it or possibly, what the kids these days are calling, “dieselpunk.”