“Duppy Conqueror” by Leonard Archie Wilson is preparing to hit the big screen by releasing its Movie Treatment

A three-act summary of this excellent book has been published in preparation for its movie adaptation. Movie Treatment is one of the first steps in writing a screenplay, and it aims to provide a summary of your work’s screenplay idea and give you the Hollywood style of fame that only a few authors have experienced.

Leonard Archie Wilson, the author of “Duppy Conqueror”, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1951, the youngest of four siblings born in Jamaica to his parents, Leonard Nathaniel and Althea Ulrica. The family home on Jacques Road in Kingston was destroyed during the deadly hurricane Charlie that visited the island in the fall of 1951. The family relocated to England the following year, 1952.

In the British school system, Leonard stood out in English composition in all the schools and all the grades, such was his love for storytelling. 

In the spring of 1967, the family, now comprising eight siblings, relocated to Jamaica, where the teenager apprenticed as a jeweler on the famed King Street in Kingston. After a four-year apprenticeship, Leonard attended West Indies College to round out his high school education. He sat the General Certificate of Education exam from Cambridge University, and of all his passes, he treasured mostly his distinction in English.

Leonard spent much of the time regaling his siblings with Stories, made up and otherwise. The streets of Kingston were a feast to his eyes and cars; the sixties being a very turbulent time in Jamaica. 

In his retirement decades later, after suffering serious illnesses, he settled in central Florida, where he writes. This is the fourth book Leonard has penned during the three years of his retirement.

A young follower of Christ casts out evil spirits (duppy) while trying to navigate his life as a man.

The title “Duppy Conqueror” should resonate with most Jamaicans. No, not because of the reggae song by the same name, but because it has been a title conferred upon a very tough person, a force of nature. The story is about a young man born in the mid-1960s who is confronted by gangs, the rude boys, and other more frightening folks of a paranormal nature. William’s strength is informed by his religious parents and the Bible, but are they enough to keep him safe and alive in the concrete jungles of Jamaica? The story draws upon the real-life experiences of family and friends. This is a work of fiction; however, the impact of the Holy Spirit is no fiction.