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Daniel Kraus on Whalefall, Survival at Sea Movies, and Building a Cetacean Story
Welcome to The Film Stage Presents! Today we’re speaking with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Daniel Kraus about his novel Whalefall and the new film of the same name (which he co-wrote with director Brian Duffield). We chat about Whalefall, adapting it from book to screen, his recent Pulitzer win for his novel Angel Down, and other underrated sea survivor movies. Among them are All Is Lost, White Squall, and In the Heart of the Sea. Additional topics discussed include the differences between books and movies, how the whale in Whalefall is actually a setting and not a villain, and the survival…
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