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Tony Burgess (born 7 September 1959) is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. His most notable works include the 1998 novel Pontypool Changes Everything and the screenplay for the film adaptation of that same novel, Pontypool.
Tony Burgess is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. His most notable works include the 1998 novel Pontypool Changes Everything and the screenplay for the film adaptation of that same novel, "Pontypool" (2008).
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Tony Burgess has 32 books on Goodreads with 11931 ratings. Tony Burgess’s most popular book is Pontypool Changes Everything.
Sep 29, 2008 · Tony Burgess is the author of the novel (" Pontypool Changes Everything ") on which the film, Pontypool, was based. He also wrote the screenplay and appears in a tiny cameo in the...
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Tony Burgess grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, but moved to Toronto after high school, where he began performing poetry under the name Tony Blue and became known in the city’s music and art scenes. Burgess later attended the University of Toronto(1989–95), graduating with a degree in semiotics. Burgess began publishing stories and novels in the 1990...
Like most of Burgess’ later novels, Pontypool Changes Everything takes on traditional horror subjects such as gruesome violence and a zombie apocalypse but subverts the genre’s conventions. For example, the novel does not feature a main character (and thus does not have a hero) and the virus is spread through language in an abstract, surrealistic m...
The n-Body Problem contains a chapter that is unreadable because it is encoded through a mathematical algorithm (Burgess presents a string of numbers and symbols instead of the chapter they encode). Nevertheless, important plot events take place in this chapter, which are never revealed to the reader. Many of Burgess’ plots feature similar sudden, ...
Bruce McDonald directed the movie Pontypool(2008) from Burgess’ own script. The stage play subsequently adapted by Burgess in 2012 was published in book form in 2015. After Pontypool’s success, Burgess moved more fully into screenwriting. Septic Man (2013), directed by Jesse Thomas Cook, concerns a sewage worker trapped in a septic tank whose body ...
Despite writing horror, Burgess has received recognition from Canada’s literary mainstream. Pontypool was shortlisted for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2010 Genie Awards, Ravenna Gets won a 2011 ReLit Award, and Idaho Winter was shortlisted for the 2012 Ontario Trillium Book Award.
Apr 12, 2016 · A new play from acclaimed writer Tony Burgess, author of the wildly successful novel, Pontypool Changes Everything . In the sleepy town of Pontypool, Ontario, no one is safe from an epidemic so devastating it will leave you literally speechless. Genres Horror Plays Drama Fiction. 112 pages, Paperback.
Pontypool Changes Everything is the second novel in the Pontypool Trilogy, by Tony Burgess, first published in 1995. [1] It was adapted into the 2008 film Pontypool with a screenplay by Burgess [2] and was nominated for a Genie Award for the adaptation. [3]
