Chris McKinney was born and raised in Hawaiʻi, on the island of Oahu. He has written nine novels, including The Tattoo and The Queen of Tears, a coauthored memoir, and the screenplays for two feature films and two short films. He is the winner of the Elliott Cades Award and seven Kapalapala Poʻokela Awards and has been appointed Visiting Distinguished Writer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Here McKinney shares some thoughts on an adaptation of his new novel, Sunset, Water City, Book 3 of the Water City Trilogy:
Cartoons! Well, more specifically anime. I’d love for this post-apocalyptic world and its characters, who all have special abilities, to be animated in the style of Monster or Ghost in the Shell, the “seinsen” genre of anime. There are numerous action scenes in this book, from gunfights, to the hunting of genetically engineered mythical creatures, to death defying nosedives from the mesosphere. Anime would match the energy of the book perfectly.Visit Chris McKinney's website.
For voice actors, my list of impossible to get talent would include Denzel Washington as the world-weary father, Florence Pugh as the cynical yet idealistic daughter, and Gemma Chan as Ascalon Lee—the woman who controls Water City. Rila Fukushima would be great as Akira Kimura, the scientist responsible for this post-apocalyptic world. Please let Netflix know.
I recently binge-watched Blue Eye Samurai, which is fantastic. I found it interesting that the series was made by a French production company. It would be a dream come true if my book and this series fell into the hands of a company like that.
The Page 69 Test: Sunset, Water City.
Q&A with Chris McKinney.
--Marshal Zeringue
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