red riding hood book by sarah blakley cartwright

She's always had an original, poetic spirit-full of whimsy-and I realized she would be perfect for this project.įrom the moment I mentioned the idea to Sarah, she dove in headfirst. I've known Sarah since she was thirteen-she'd even played small parts in all four of my She had just graduated with honors from Barnard College While on a trip to New York, I saw my friend Sarah Blakley-Cartwright. The film, so I wanted to help create a novel to fully explore the tangled web of emotions in the village of Daggorhorn. The deeper we went into the world, the more I realized that the characters and their backstories were too complex to fit into

The people of the village are just as guarded emotionally as theyĪre physically, and when their decades-long peace with the Wolf starts to break down, so do the ties among them. Wooden shutters and ladders that are pulled up at night. The villagers live in cottages that feel like miniature fortresses-they are elevated on stilts and have heavy This social paranoia stuck with me during the development of the script, and eventually it was built into the DNA of Daggorhorn'sĪrchitecture. The Wolf in our story represents a dark, dangerous side of man and fosters a paranoid society. The storyĮxplores themes of teenage angst and the pitfalls of growing up and falling in love. In this version of 'Red Riding Hood,' I was interested in the modern feel of the characters and their relationships. For inspiration, I pulledįrom creative sources all around me-my sister's paintings for the magic and the mood, current fashion runways for the clothes,Ī little northern Russian architecture book I'd been saving since I was a teenager for the design of Daggorhorn. My head was filled with images and ideas about how to make this world come alive. I immediately fell in love with the idea of making a new, dark, layered version of the classicįairy tales are rich blueprints that help us understand and create our own worlds, which is exactly what I attempted to do

DiCaprio's company, Appian Way, had been developing I N A UGUST 2009, I was sent a script called The Girl with the Red Riding Hood, written by David Leslie Johnson and based on an idea by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Red riding hood book by sarah blakley cartwright