The Doom We Must Deem

Iain Coleman | October 31, 2008

Just for fun, a friend and I were batting around some ideas on how to adapt The Lord of the Rings as a TV series. A futile exercise, I know: it would actually be easier to take the Ring of Power to Mount Doom yourself and film it than to get the rights for [...]

Not a mother-in-law gag

Iain Coleman | October 31, 2008

There’s a character in the current spec script who gave me a real problem when it came to writing her dialogue. She’s the mother-in-law of the principal character, and every time I started writing one of ther lines I would hear the voice of Jackie Tyler. Now Jackie has a pretty overbearing voice, and I [...]

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Iain Coleman

Science writer by day, screenwriter by night. Past exploits include gaining a PhD in astrophysics, researching the solar wind and the aurora, training and performing in experimental theatre, standing for Parliament, and helping to run a city council.