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His books have inspired everything from Rian Johnson’s Knives Out to Black Mirror‘s “Bandersnatch” episode. Now Edward Packard is telling all about the creation of Choose Your Own Adventure, the groundbreaking interactive book series that turned “you,” the reader, into the hero.
Joining The Hollywood Reporter’s It Happened in Hollywood podcast, Packard, 91, details how in the late 1960s, while depressed working as a corporate lawyer on Wall Street, he dreamed up the idea for the Choose Your Own Adventure books.
“I had my two older kids and told them a story about a kid named Pete,” he says. “Pete gets shipwrecked on a remote island, a little bit of a takeoff on Robinson Crusoe. If I had been a better storyteller, I would have just told them a great story.” But Packard would get stuck in the narrative, so he’d offer his children options.
His books have inspired everything from Rian Johnson’s Knives Out to Black Mirror‘s “Bandersnatch” episode. Now Edward Packard is telling all about the creation of Choose Your Own Adventure, the groundbreaking interactive book series that turned “you,” the reader, into the hero.
Joining The Hollywood Reporter’s It Happened in Hollywood podcast, Packard, 91, details how in the late 1960s, while depressed working as a corporate lawyer on Wall Street, he dreamed up the idea for the Choose Your Own Adventure books.
“I had my two older kids and told them a story about a kid named Pete,” he says. “Pete gets shipwrecked on a remote island, a little bit of a takeoff on Robinson Crusoe. If I had been a better storyteller, I would have just told them a great story.” But Packard would get stuck in the narrative, so he’d offer his children options.
- 11/15/2022
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Red Crown Productions is teaming with Chooseco, owners of the children’s book series "Choose Your Own Adventure", to develop film and TV adaptations of the books says The Hollywood Reporter.
First released in 1979, there are more than 185 titles in the Adventure series with more than 250 million books in print. Ray Montgomery was the original author.
Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Daniel Crown will produce. No word on which story would be, though it'll likely tie-in with Chooseco's plans to re-launch the line.
First released in 1979, there are more than 185 titles in the Adventure series with more than 250 million books in print. Ray Montgomery was the original author.
Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Daniel Crown will produce. No word on which story would be, though it'll likely tie-in with Chooseco's plans to re-launch the line.
- 1/22/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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