About this ebook
Winner of 35 film festival awards, Robot Stories is an acclaimed independent movie by talented Asian American writer Greg Pak. In four intertwined stories, people struggle to connect in a technological world.
- My Robot Baby: a couple cares for a robot baby before they adopt a human child.
- The Robot Fixer: a mother tries to connect with her dying son by completing his toy robot collection.
- Machine Love: an office worker android learns that he, too, needs love.
- Clay: an old sculptor must choose between a natural death and digital immortality.
Plus more scripts that span Pak’s burgeoning career: Mouse; Cat Fight Tonight; Corporis Vesalius; and Asian Pride Porn and All Amateur Ecstasy. The book features a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, an original introduction and commentary by the author on each screenplay, plus cast photographs, a glossary of terms, and an innovative format designed to make screenplays easier to read than ever.
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"An award winning filmmaker and now hot as hell newcomer...[Pak] is a writer on the cusp, right at the unique precipice between upstart and industry great."
- Joe Quesada, Editor in Chief, Marvel Comics
"Greg Pak's fantasy anthology piece...has a dexterous sense of wonder....Mr. Pak's feel for melodrama adds a piercing and thoughtful end note similar to the emotional gravity found in Stephen King novellas likeThe Body andRita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption....He's a talent with a future."
- Elvis Mitchell,The New York Times
"As the title says, Pak uses an ostensible sci-fi motif to link his four pieces. What truly binds them, however, is a subtle exploration of the tension between the human and the synthetic, and the sometimes fuzzy distinction between the two. The film also has a distinguishable arc, beginning with an exceedingly nontraditional 'birth' and closing with a triumphant death...He's an uncannily assured visual storyteller...The result is a quietly impassioned, genuinely stirring indie rarity."
- Mark Holcomb, The Village Voice
"It's a crying shame they don't make more science fiction movies like writer/director Greg Pak's independent film Robot Stories...Robot Stories and More Screenplays includes a foreword by David Henry Hwang (playwright for M. Butterfly), a preface by Pak, and useful editor's notes on reading and understanding screenplays and their unique conventions. It's a great package...given Pak's thoughtful introductions at the start of each 'chapter', it's also a rare opportunity for up-and-coming filmmakers to get a glimpse into the art of short filmmaking."
- SciFi Dimensions
About the author
Greg Pak is an award-winning writer and director whose feature film Robot Stories is now available on DVD from Kino. Greg has written comic books for Marvel (World War Hulk, Magneto Testament, Storm, Phoenix: Endsong, Incredible Hercules), DC (Action Comics, Batman/Superman) and Dyanmite (Battlestar Galactica, John Wick, James Bond 007). He is currently working on comic book series for Marvel (Star Wars: Darth Vader, Agents of Atlas) and Boom Studios (Firefly, Ronin Island). Greg studied political science at Yale University, history at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and film production at the NYU graduate film program. His family lives in New York, NY. Learn more at www.pakbuzz.com.
David Henry Hwang is an acclaimed American playwright, screenwriter, and librettist, who wrote the Tony Award-winning play M. Butterfly (1988), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize He attended Stanford University (B.A., 1979), where his first play, FOB won an Obie Award in 1980–81 for best new American play. In 1985 Hwang cowrote the screenplay for Blind Alleys, a made-for-television movie. Hwang’s play, Golden Child (produced 1996, revised 1998) was nominated for a Tony Award. He cowrote the book for Aida (2000), a new book for the revival of the musical Flower Drum Song (2002); and the book for Tarzan (2006). His stage comedy Yellow Face was first performed in 2007. In 2011 Chinglish appeared on Broadway. His family lives in New York, NY.
