Legend of the Guardians: Writer John Orloff
Writer John Orloff explains how, with the help of technology, he never felt limited when creating the film world of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole.
How did you get involved with Guardians?
An executive I knew at Warner asked me what kind of movies I was interested in and I said I’d love to do a fantasy or sci-fi film, but nobody hires me for that because they want me to write non-fiction-based material. She sent me a number of books, including a full book set of Guardians. I read the first one and thought it was unlike any world I had ever seen before, it wasn’t incredibly derivative of Tolkien like so many fantasy books are and it had its own universe and its own rules. That was almost four years ago.
The film condenses the story of the first three books. Why?
