Scrapped film adaptation for Pros & Cons and Floyd-inspired play by Pete Ward - is this real?
I’m on the wikipedia article for The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking and under ‘Film Adaptation’, it says this:
The only citation is about how “yesterday’s triumph” is from a Pink Floyd song. Skeptical, I checked the article’s history to see who wrote this part of it and sure enough the addition was made by somebody named ‘petewardart’ in 2012. The first sentence was already there before his edits though, but there’s no citation for that either, and I can’t find any better source at least from a quick google search.
Upon googling Pete Ward, he has a Linkedin where he appears to be a real screenwriter but doesn’t mention any of the above, and he has a website which briefly mentions the above and how he met with Roger Waters. This article on Brain Damage also calls him a contributor to the website.
Still no further information to be found about this play or the screenplay on google, but google can be pretty useless nowadays. Have any of you heard about this elsewhere? It seems like the kind of thing I’d find in PF biographies I’ve read, but I don’t remember hearing about it until now.
His website also has an email and a twitter account with DMs open, so if you think you’re diplomatic enough to ask him for proof then you can share any response you get here. I’m too convinced it’s a troll personally.
A film based on the concept was proposed, and in 1987 a press release for the Radio K.A.O.S. album claimed a film adaptation of Pros and Cons... had been completed, though nothing has been heard of it since. The screenplay was written by BBC/Radio Times Drama Award winner Pete Ward, who used excerpts from Waters' songs/lyrics from 1967 to 1987 as background to his award-winning play, Yesterday's Triumph,[13] exploring the 20-year relationship of two close friends – one who attempts to fake mental illness to be with the other, who is an institutionalized "catastrophic schizophrenic". Ward was commissioned to expand the plot and characters in The Pros and Cons around the album's 42-minute real-time dream sequence based on Waters' own dreams.
The only citation is about how “yesterday’s triumph” is from a Pink Floyd song. Skeptical, I checked the article’s history to see who wrote this part of it and sure enough the addition was made by somebody named ‘petewardart’ in 2012. The first sentence was already there before his edits though, but there’s no citation for that either, and I can’t find any better source at least from a quick google search.
Upon googling Pete Ward, he has a Linkedin where he appears to be a real screenwriter but doesn’t mention any of the above, and he has a website which briefly mentions the above and how he met with Roger Waters. This article on Brain Damage also calls him a contributor to the website.
Still no further information to be found about this play or the screenplay on google, but google can be pretty useless nowadays. Have any of you heard about this elsewhere? It seems like the kind of thing I’d find in PF biographies I’ve read, but I don’t remember hearing about it until now.
His website also has an email and a twitter account with DMs open, so if you think you’re diplomatic enough to ask him for proof then you can share any response you get here. I’m too convinced it’s a troll personally.