If you’ve known me for any length of time, you’ll know that one of my favourite novels is Incompetence by the incredibly funny Rob Grant (perhaps best known, much to his chagrin, as the co-creator of Red Dwarf). It’s a superb book – part crime thriller, part gut-busting comedy, part social commentary. I usually make a point of trying to read it at least once a year.
For a while now I’ve had the urge to adapt the novel into a screenplay, just for my own amusement. I’ve never done an adaptation before, and I feel the story in Incompetence would lend itself well to a feature film adaptation. So my project for January is to get a first draft of Incompetence: The Movie: The Screenplay knocked out.
Wish me luck.