His second novel was another western with the similarly strong "Wraiths of the Broken Land." Both books are extremely violent and feature shades of horror, just like "Bone Tomahawk." Zahler emerged fully formed as an author and was even nominated for a Golden Spur Award presented to the best in western fiction. His first book, "A Congregation of Jackals," was published in 2010. The other thing that is in almost all of my work is horror."Ī few years before becoming a filmmaker, Zahler became an accomplished author. "Everything that I write has comedy in it. "For me, the movie is kind of a classic western," he said, adding, "I just see it as a western where, when you're dealing with the enemies, it goes further than you would expect." Elements of both horror and comedy work their way into the story in the same way that they end up in all of his projects. When Creative Screenwriting asked him about the genre fusion of western and horror, Zahler revealed that he considers "Bone Tomahawk" to be a straight-up western first and foremost. The old adage "writing is rewriting" does not apply to Zahler. During an interview with Creative Screenwriting about "Bone Tomahawk," Zahler said, "With this you're looking at basically the first draft and the same can be said of most of my screenplays that are out there." He went on to clarify that he does go back to fix typos and make simple edits but that he doesn't alter the story from its original state.
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