Queen Creek resident Frank Fiore has published books in genres ranging from science fiction to western. Now he is hoping to get them turned into movies.
Originally from Brooklyn, Fiore has lived in Arizona since 1969 and he has lived in Queen Creek for five years.
Fiore has been writing since he was a child. When he was 10 years old, he wrote a short story for school called “I Made History,” about boy who donates his toy metal truck to the metal drive and the toy eventually becomes part of the first atomic bomb.
He said that he breaks "the cardinal rule of writing" in that he doesn’t read. Instead, he watches a lot of movies.
“I learn a lot about writing while watching movies,” he said. Fiore approaches his novels like a screenwriter and follows screenwriter rules when he writes.
The last book he read was “The Da Vinci Code,” by Dan Brown. “I said I can write better than that, and then I wrote the “Jeremy Nash” series.”
The Jeremy Nash is a thriller series about a conspiracy theory debunker.
He is currently working on getting his sci-fi novel, “Cyberkill,” turned into a movie, and he's working on adapting all of his novels into screenplays.
“Cyberkill” is the first novel that Fiore published. It is about a man who accidentally created malevolent artificial intelligence, which then stalks the man’s daughter when he attempts to destroy it.
He wrote the screenplay for his novel “Cyberkill” and polished it with a director who a friend connected him with.
Fiore is hoping that a streaming service will finance the movie.
“I’m just about ready to do crowdsourcing for the Cyberkill movie,” Fiore said. “Hopefully it will be released in 2022. That’s what we’re shooting for.
“This is the closest I’ve ever come to having one of my books turned into a movie,” he added. “That’s always been the dream.”
Fiore’s books are available on Amazon.
