Ms. Zollar, 51, created a tale about a 12-year-old girl from Mozambique who moves to the Southeastern United States with her family.
From that, the director created a tale about a lone captain weathering a storm on a Victorian airship, complete with a steam punk aesthetic, pet dragon, and a melancholic air.
"I wanted to create a tale for kids," Monteiro says in a documentary about the project.
Tyler Hess of Christian Music Zine gave the album a B, opining that "Mercy Me [sic], the mega-band that everyone and their grandma knows about in Christian rock, has created a tale of two bands.
A series of fights over budgets, filming locations and final cut has raised questions about the future of the film, creating a cautionary tale about the challenges independent filmmakers face in trying to get their pet projects onto the big screen.
With a threat of prison aimed squarely between McNamee's eyes, he had nothing to gain and everything to lose by creating a fairy tale about Clemens.
Socialist realism had created a folk tale about a completely unrealistic and hugely positive everyday life, where everything was highly pol ished and topped with a generous sprinkling of icing sugar.
Working from a script he co-wrote with Ann Biderman and Ronan Bennett, Mann creates a straightforward tale about America's most famous bank-robber, John Dillinger, given the full charismatic treatment by Johnny Depp -- charismatic, if enigmatic.
The whole time I was writing, I thought I was creating a lighthearted tale about a gay man who, disappointed in love and hungering for the commitment he sees in his own family, gets drunk one night and places an ad on Craigslist: "Gay Man Seeks Straight Woman for Marriage".
Supporting family literacy was a second major goal, and we wanted to create a rollicking tale for children to enjoy and to learn about the culture of the home their elders cherish.
