Greywolf
An introspective call-back to the golden days of the Sword & Sorcery literary genre, this reality bending story follows the struggles of a successful but reclusive author in the 1970s as his larger-than-life character Greywolf, a bold and savage Viking warrior, is brought to life by mysterious means and with only one demand; finish the book or face the consequences.
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Joshua WarrenWriter
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Project Type:Short Script
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Genres:Fantasy
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Number of Pages:29
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Country of Origin:Norway
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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BlueCat Screenplay Competition
May 14, 2024
Quarter-Finalist
Joshua Warren has been fascinated by cinema and literature ever since he was a child when he spent most of his free time either drawing, writing or making amateur short films with his schoolmates. He has written, produced and directed several shorts films in both the UK and in Norway. He is also a self-published novelist.
Greywolf is at once a tribute, an analysis and a well-intended parody of the Sword & Sorcery fiction boom that had its heyday in the 1970s.
There is just something very special about those old pulpy fantasy paperbacks, with their vivid, bold illustrations that seem to leap out of the paper and pull you into the fantastical worlds of larger-than-life characters such as Conan the Barbarian and Elric of Melniboné. It was that sensation which gave me the idea that lies at the heart of Greywolf, and as an author myself (both of screenplays and novels) I have drawn from my own experiences to tell an introspective story that is as much about creativity and storytelling as it is about sorcery and bold warriors.