Robot Stories
And More Screenplays
July 2005
Trade Paperback · 232 Pages
$14.95 U.S. · $18.00 CAN
ISBN 9781597020008
Immedium
Trade Paperback · 232 Pages
$14.95 U.S. · $18.00 CAN
ISBN 9781597020008
Immedium
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Description
An award winning filmmaker and now hot as hell newcomer& [Pak] is a writer on the cusp, right at the unique precipice between upstart and industry great.- Joe Quesada, Editor in Chief, Marvel Comics
Greg Pak's fantasy anthology piece…has a dexterous sense of wonder….Mr. Pak's feel for melodrama adds a piercing and thoughtful end note similar to the emotional gravity found in Stephen King novellas like The Body and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption….He's a talent with a future. — The New York Times
As the title says, Pak uses an ostensible sci-fi motif to link his four pieces. What truly binds them, however, is a subtle exploration of the tension between the human and the synthetic, and the sometimes fuzzy distinction between the two. The film also has a distinguishable arc, beginning with an exceedingly nontraditional \' birth' and closing with a triumphant death…He's an uncannily assured visual storyteller…The result is a quietly impassioned, genuinely stirring indie rarity. —Mark Holcomb, The Village Voice
Winner of more than 30 film festival awards, Robot Stories is an acclaimed independent movie by talented Asian American writer Greg Pak. In four intertwined stories, people struggle to connect in a technological world. In My Robot Baby, a couple cares for a robot before adopting a human child. In The Robot Fixer, a mother reaches out to her dying son by completing his toy robot collection. In Machine Love, an office worker android learns that he too needs love. In Clay, an old sculptor chooses between natural death and digital immortality.
Praised as the kind of science fiction sophisticated audiences crave and deserve, the screenplay follows in the literary tradition of Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.
This collection includes scripts from additional short films, original commentary by the author, and a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Henry Hwang.
It's a crying shame they don't make more science fiction movies like writer/director Greg Pak's independent film Robot Stories…Robot Stories and More Screenplays includes a foreword by David Henry Hwang (playwright for M. Butterfly), a preface by Pak, and useful editor's notes on reading and understanding screenplays and their unique conventions. It's a great package…given Pak's thoughtful introductions at the start of each 'chapter', it's also a rare opportunity for up-and-coming filmmakers to get a glimpse into the art of short filmmaking.—SciFi Dimensions
Greg Pak's fantasy anthology piece…has a dexterous sense of wonder….Mr. Pak's feel for melodrama adds a piercing and thoughtful end note similar to the emotional gravity found in Stephen King novellas like The Body and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption….He's a talent with a future. — The New York Times
As the title says, Pak uses an ostensible sci-fi motif to link his four pieces. What truly binds them, however, is a subtle exploration of the tension between the human and the synthetic, and the sometimes fuzzy distinction between the two. The film also has a distinguishable arc, beginning with an exceedingly nontraditional \' birth' and closing with a triumphant death…He's an uncannily assured visual storyteller…The result is a quietly impassioned, genuinely stirring indie rarity. —Mark Holcomb, The Village Voice
Winner of more than 30 film festival awards, Robot Stories is an acclaimed independent movie by talented Asian American writer Greg Pak. In four intertwined stories, people struggle to connect in a technological world. In My Robot Baby, a couple cares for a robot before adopting a human child. In The Robot Fixer, a mother reaches out to her dying son by completing his toy robot collection. In Machine Love, an office worker android learns that he too needs love. In Clay, an old sculptor chooses between natural death and digital immortality.
Praised as the kind of science fiction sophisticated audiences crave and deserve, the screenplay follows in the literary tradition of Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.
This collection includes scripts from additional short films, original commentary by the author, and a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Henry Hwang.
It's a crying shame they don't make more science fiction movies like writer/director Greg Pak's independent film Robot Stories…Robot Stories and More Screenplays includes a foreword by David Henry Hwang (playwright for M. Butterfly), a preface by Pak, and useful editor's notes on reading and understanding screenplays and their unique conventions. It's a great package…given Pak's thoughtful introductions at the start of each 'chapter', it's also a rare opportunity for up-and-coming filmmakers to get a glimpse into the art of short filmmaking.—SciFi Dimensions
About the Authors
Greg Pak was named one of American Top 10 comic book writers by Wizard magazine. He has written the Marvel comics Planet Hulk, World War Hulk, Skaar: Son of Hulk, Incredible Hulk, Incredible Hercules, Warlock, X-Men: Phoenix Endsong, Magneto, Iron Man, War Machine, and Battlestar Galactica (Dynamite Entertainment).
Greg Pak directed his first feature film Robot Stories which has played nationwide and won over 30 festival awards. With clients including Nike and Marvel Comics, he edits FilmHelp.com and AsianAmericanFilm.com. One of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 Filmmakers to Watch, Greg studied political science at Yale, history at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and film at NYU's graduate program. David Henry Hwang is a playwright, screenwriter, and librettist, best known as the author of M. Butterfly, which won the 1988 TonyŠ, Drama Desk, John Gassner, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He graduated from Stanford University and attended the Yale School of Drama.
Greg Pak directed his first feature film Robot Stories which has played nationwide and won over 30 festival awards. With clients including Nike and Marvel Comics, he edits FilmHelp.com and AsianAmericanFilm.com. One of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 Filmmakers to Watch, Greg studied political science at Yale, history at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and film at NYU's graduate program. David Henry Hwang is a playwright, screenwriter, and librettist, best known as the author of M. Butterfly, which won the 1988 TonyŠ, Drama Desk, John Gassner, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He graduated from Stanford University and attended the Yale School of Drama.