Screenwriting
Since the completion of Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark in 2007, Lucas has devoted his free time to pursuing a career in screenwriting. Lucas' screenplay The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes (co-written with Charlie Largent), a comedy about the filming of Roger Corman's 1967 film The Trip is currently optioned by Metaluna Productions for director Joe Dante.
According to an interview in the Oregon-based fanzine Sinister Press, Lucas spent most of his off-magazine time in 2008 and early 2009 scripting Me and the Orgone, based on Orson Bean's 1971 book about his experiences in Reichian therapy, and also an original screenplay based on the life of Ishi written in collaboration with Diane Pfister.
In November 2010, Lucas made his directorial debut at The Factory Digital Filmmaking School of the Douglas Education Center in Monessen, PA with a promotional trailer and dialogue scene for a proposed feature film adaptation of his novel Throat Sprockets, executive produced by Robert Tinnell. The dialogue scene, a self-contained six-minute short adapted from the novel's "Transylvania mon amour" chapter, features Christopher Scott Grimaldi as Ad Man (unnamed in the novel) and Brandy Loveless as Nancy Reagan. The short had its World Premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec on July 18, 2011, as a lead-in to the documentary Jean Rollin - Le Reveur Égare.
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