Hollywood Movie Script Coverage for “The Hawk of Yonezawa” by Donald D. Joye has been released for the book’s qualification for a Hollywood movie adaptation
ARP’s Movie Script Coverage service aims to provide a written outline of the author’s book—a screenplay—that will be stored in a database that major studios can consult when seeking stories to adapt into films. Recently, a Hollywood-style script was written for Donald D. Joye’s book, “The Hawk of Yonezawa”.
“The Hawk of Yonezawa” is an exciting read tailored to suit all ages with a uniquely chosen diction and characters that are easy to love. It will be an excellent movie if it is ever adapted into a screenplay. The book is a reminder that there need not be violence in every aspect of life, as it also glorifies God and puts a spotlight on religion, one of the many reasons why Bach chose to help Hana-ko and Hanzu fix the organ at their church. This will be an entertaining movie to watch, as not many screenplays have depicted Bach’s story, much less in such a light as the author has done.
The screenplay is the common ground on which producers, directors, actors, and production teams working on the movie will collaborate from start to finish and serves as a roadmap for them in terms of what will be seen on the big screen. The production of the Movie Script Coverage is to prepare for the screenplay to be produced.
Donald D. Joye is a professor at Villanova University. He has been enthusiastically involved in classical music since he was thirteen years old. After growing up on Long Island, New York, and attending college in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, he settled in the Philadelphia suburbs, where he and his wife, Claudia, raised their three boys, Colin, Gavin, and Christopher.
“The Hawk of Yonezawa” is a short novel, or novella, about the fictional adventures of Johann Sebastian Bach, who is transported to the island of Japan.
Johann Sebastian Bach returns to Leipzig, his hometown, after missing Handel’s concert in Frankfurt. On his ride home to his wife and twelve children, he is joined by two passengers in his coach: Anna and her son, Hans.
A conversation ensues between the twelve-year-old boy and Bach, which leads them to discover that he is an organist and an organ repairer. Anna and her son beseech Sebastian to come and have a look at the damaged organ in their town’s church. The organ has been spoiled for two years, and all efforts to fix it by the men in the town have turned fruitless.
Bach is afflicted by the decision to either go with them or return to his family and his duties back in Leipzig. He falls asleep while pondering this, and when he wakes up, he meets Hana-ko and Hanzu, an Asian rendition of Anna and Hans whom he met a few hours ago.
Hana-ko offers Bach a stay at the Inn of Happiness during his time in Yonezawa as he fixes the town’s musical organ. Here, Bach befriends Uesugo, and Hanzu is known to follow the music composer, fascinated by him and his artistry. Hana-ko and Bach share a typical relationship with losing loved ones and form a bond with them. Bach tries to help Hana-ko deal with the loss of her husband, as he hopes she can sing in the church again as she once did before her husband’s death.
Matsui-san, the town’s doctor, is furious at this bond between Bach and Hana-ko, so he devises an evil plan that will place Hana-ko forever in his debt and perhaps make her choose to be with him over anyone else who might be contending for her hand. The plan soon fails, but not without fatally wounding Hanzu.