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“The impetus to write any kind of book is usually evident in the first 50 to 100 pages. That’s where you’re really laying down the themes that are going to propel you through the rest of the book and that’s particularly true of Annie’s book,” Elwood Reid reveals in his exclusive interview with Gold Derby about sticking to the opening 100 pages when adapting the novel “Barkskins” by Annie Proulx as a television drama (watch the video above).

The creator and showrunner continues about the origins of the project for National Geographic, “They said, ‘We don’t know if this is adaptable.’ If you look at this book on its outside, it’s a 700-page book that tracks multiple generations of characters throughout the centuries. That’s hard to translate to television, but there was a tone and a theme in there, like I said, in the first 100 pages that I was captivated by.

PARIS -- What's the link between Tony Scott's Domino, Canadian historical epic Nouvelle France, the big-budget video game adaptations Oni-musha and Silent Hill and the Spanish-language thriller The Aura from hot Argentine director Fabian Bielinsky? The answer is that all are co-produced by French independent distributor Metropolitan FilmExport and its production arm Davis Films, jointly run by brothers Victor and Samuel Hadida. Metropolitan has established itself as one of the leading buyers in the international marketplace, wrapping up a slew of deals at the recent European Film Market in Berlin, notably on Terry George's competition title Hotel Rwanda. The backbone of the company's distribution slate remains its output deal with New Line, and Metropolitan's recent burst of production activity is undoubtedly spurred by the cash bonanza flowing from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.