Christopher Chance Screenplays Part3

In this recording Christopher and I discuss his screenplays and in particular BENEATH THE POPPY FIELDS, which is currently on InkTip where film makers and production companies can view it – genre War / Action.

Christopher was inspired to write the story of WW1 subterranean warfare on the centenary of the Battle of The Somme. In it he describes how coalminers (like his own grandfather Johnny Gordon) from Lancashire and Yorkshire were propagandised and subsequently recruited for their skills at working underground. These men were not soldiers.

Christopher uses powerful descriptive narrative to describe the treacherous life beneath a war zone. Hearing a baby crying in the battlefield was confusing and traumatic and evidence that the Germans, who had been there longer than our own troops, had settled in enough to even have a brothel behind their own lines!

The consensus of everybody who has read the book is that BENEATH THE POPPY FIELDS needs to be made into a feature film.