It got optioned and I had a director attached and I had actresses attached, but at the time period films were considered very expensive to make and it was hard to get investors from Europe to tell a British woman’s story, especially since I was American. My screenplay initially got a lot of heat. It is a biopic about a woman named Ada Lovelace who is considered to be the world's first computer programmer for the work she did with Charles Babbage in the 1800s. Shanee Edwards: I was awarded the Sloan award in 2005 for my screenplay ENCHANTRESS OF NUMBERS. Science & Film: Can you tell me about your screenplay, and why you wanted to turn it into a book? We interviewed Edwards by phone about the story and the process of turning the screenplay into a novel. In 2019, Edwards published her screenplay as the novel Ada Lovelace: the Countess who Dreamed in Numbers, which was released on March 1. The Story of Ada Lovelace: From Screenplay to NovelĪlmost 15 years ago, in 2005, UCLA graduate student Shanee Edwards won a Sloan Screenplay Award for ENCHANTRESS OF NUMBERS, a dramatization of the life of Ada Lovelace who is often regarded as the first computer programmer.
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