MELBOURNE — One of the best questions from the audience at my Melbourne talk on The Devil’s Cinema and the “Dexter Killer” case involved my direct contact with Mark Twitchell.
“How did your interaction with him change the scope of your book, and how would the book have been different without his participation?” one reader asked.
I think this question strikes at the very core of what I was hoping to achieve: a narrative that peered deep into the minds of everyone involved.
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MELBOURNE — I’ve often been asked if there will ever be a movie made about the “Dexter Killer” case and its main subject, Mark Twitchell.
I do find this question quite fascinating.
The story is essentially about a series of novels that becomes a TV show, that inspired a filmmaker’s horror movie script, which later became reality — and was then all told in The Devil’s Cinema from the point-of-view of the detectives, the victims and the killer.
So should there be a movie about this whole book-TV-film-murder-book scenario? What a hall of mirrors!
Hmmm. Tough question. But I do know there is interest in such an idea.
Those who have read the book already know how Errol Morris had links to the case, and how the killer himself had come up with his own fantasy casting ideas (he once told me I’m supposed to be played by Edward Norton).
But truthfully, I personally haven’t given it much thought.
I’m having my first book event here in Melbourne in just over a week, however, and I may just talk about such a possible film project in more detail.
So if you’re in the city, come on down to Readings Hawthorn on Monday, Sept. 24th and feel free to ask anything.
I’ll try my best to answer.
Share This: MELBOURNE — I’m thrilled to see The Devil’s Cinema, my narrative on the “Dexter Killer” Mark Twitchell case, will be published in Australia.
The good people at Penguin Australia have snapped up the rights to release my book in both Australia and New Zealand.
While I was born and raised in Canada, I’ve been living in Australia for the past few years, so this is fabulous news to see this story now shared in my two homes.
There are a few changes to the Aussie release: the cover and subhead have both been altered slightly.
(Apparently Australians are more familiar with the case being called the “Dexter Killer” than by the man behind the notorious moniker, Mark Twitchell.)
In any event, any good Aussie bookstore will have a copy by the August 22 release day. It will be available locally as an eBook too.
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