Alexander Stuart

Haptic and virtual reality currently involve suits and headsets like this. Hopefully not forever! Scarlett Johansson in Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin. When Mike White interviewed me for The Projection Booth podcast about my work on the early scripts for Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson, we talked some more about other topics - and Mike was kind enough to feature a bonus interview with me. You can listen here (it's about 27 minutes long) or at The Projection Booth (Bonus Interview: Alexander Stuart) Download the Episode   The Projection Booth Bonus Interview: Alexander Stuart (27 minutes)  I talk about Silicon Valley and tech, which I love, about how I see entertainment evolving - including virtual reality and haptic reality, which involves touch, but hopefully can evolve quickly past body suits and headsets - and about the epic (in terms of my life) novel I'm writing, Chinatown Nights.

I was thrilled to be interviewed recently by Mike White  about my work on the first three drafts of the script for Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin , starring Scarlett Johansson , for The Projection Booth podcast. The Under The Skin podcast also features Alexandra West of the Faculty of Horror podcast , with whom Mike and Projection Booth cohost Rob St Mary discuss a particularly sexist review of Under The Skin by Horribly Hooched , which seems to reduce the film to a porn flick (I haven't read the review). Anyway, if you'd like to hear the podcast, which is two hours forty-five minutes long (I appear toward the end), you can listen at The Projection Booth or, thanks to Mike, right here on my blog: Download the Episode The Projection Booth Under The Skin podcast (2 hours 45 minutes) If you'd like to read more about my work on Under The Skin, please visit this page - and for Ryan Gilbey's New Statesman piece about m

Working with Jonathan Glazer on the first three drafts of Under The Skin was one of the most intense and extraordinary periods in my life.  It took Jon many years to get the film made with Scarlett Johansson (available to stream or download from iTunes or Amazon), and even though it changed enormously during that time, I still feel a curious sense of ownership even when I see still images from the film.  Writing the early drafts of the script (the two opening pages are below) was a weird and fabulous journey for me, in territory both unknown and imagined - drawn both from Michel Faber’s novel and the landscape of my own father’s childhood in northern Scotland. As I explained to Ryan Gilbey, film critic of The New Statesman , last year, working with Jon was a unique and curious process, not without its difficulties at times, but always provocative and enlightening: “Jon and I worked together on the first three drafts. The second one we really tried to coll

My friend, the film critic Ryan Gilbey , recently wrote this piece for the New Statesman in Britain about my work on the first three drafts of the script of Jonathan Glazer's upcoming film, Under The Skin , released April 4 in the US and already in release in the UK and elsewhere. Working with Jonathan was a great experience, and Under The Skin itself is an extraordinary piece of work, both in terms of Michel Faber's novel and Jonathan's film. Ryan's review of Under The Skin is here , and to experience more of Ryan's work, check out the Guardian article about my lifelong friend and collaborator (on Insignificance ), the great British filmmaker, Nicolas Roeg, at the end of this blog post from June 3 2012: Nicolas Roeg - His Own Timing, His Own Wisdom and Kindness. Here is Ryan's New Statesman article: Isserley, Penélope Cruz and the slow gestation of Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin Jon

Scarlett Johansson in Under The Skin. Ryan Gilbey has an excellent article in today's Sunday Times about British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer's movie, inspired by ("adaptation" seems too literal a word) Michel Faber's deeply unsettling novel, Under The Skin. The film stars Scarlett Johansson as an alien predator (of sorts) who picks up male hitchhikers in the seemingly unlikely landscape of Scotland. (I'm half-Scottish; somehow science-fiction isn't a topic you most immediately associate with Scotland.) I worked on the first three drafts of the script, before Jonathan - over the period of a decade - took it in a totally new direction, including the intriguing device of having Johansson pick up unsuspecting real-life hitchhikers (who were later persuaded to sign a release for the film - or not, in some cases) and see what came next, courtesy of a camera hidden in her truck. Ryan was kind enough to quote me twice in his piece. You can read