It's not a novel that will change your life, but the interesting characters and mystery kept me involved. The simple fairy-tale of Little Red Riding Hood, known here as Valerie, all grown up and wrapped in a werewolf legend, worked. and Blakley-Cartwright succeeded in making the story interesting. I haven't seen the film, and frankly the flood of negative reviews and comments would probably have kept me away (as if the Twilight connection alone wasn't enough reason to pass) but I was tempted by the book. She she handed it off to her pal, Sarah, who had just graduated from college with a degree in creative writing, and asked for a book.īlakley-Cartwright rose to the challenge. She was hard at work crafting David Leslie Johnson's dark, gothic screenplay into a movie when she realized her characters just had too much backstory to bring to the big screen. Red Riding Hood, as we learn in Hardwicke's much-ballyhooed intro, wasn't meant to be a book. It's an unusual situation, but I suppose given Blakley-Cartwright's obscurity - this is her first novel, after all - and Hardwicke's fame - she directed Twilight - the decision makes some sense. Instead, filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke's name is given prominence for her introduction. Sarah Blakley-Cartwright's name appears only on the binding and, of course, inside. It puzzled me that the author's name wasn't listed on the book's cover. Rambles.NET: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, based on a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson, Red Riding Hood Sarah Blakley-Cartwright,īased on a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson,

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