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Write Your Screenplay with the Help of Top Screenwriters!
It's like taking a Master Class in screenwriting ... all in one book!
Discover the pitfalls of writing to fit a budget from screenwriters who have successfully navigated these waters already. Learn from their mistakes and improve your script with their expert advice.
"I wish I'd read this book before I made Re-Animator."
Stuart Gordon, Director, Re-Animator, Castle Freak, From Beyond
John Gaspard has directed half a dozen low-budget features, as well as written for TV, movies, novels and the stage.
The book covers (among other topics):
- Academy-Award Winner Dan Futterman ("Capote") on writing real stories
- Tom DiCillio ("Living In Oblivion") on turning a short into a feature
- Kasi Lemmons ("Eve's Bayou") on writing for a different time period
- George Romero ("Martin") on writing horror on a budget
- Rebecca Miller ("Personal Velocity") on adapting short stories
- Stuart Gordon ("Re-Animator") on adaptations
- Academy-Award Nominee Whit Stillman ("Metropolitan") on cheap ways to make it look expensive
- Miranda July ("Me and You and Everyone We Know") on making your writing spontaneous
- Alex Cox ("Repo Man") on scaling the script to meet a budget
- Joan Micklin Silver ("Hester Street") on writing history on a budget
- Bob Clark ("Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things") on mixing humor and horror
- Amy Holden Jones ("Love Letters") on writing romance on a budget
- Henry Jaglom ("Venice/Venice") on mixing improvisation with scripting
- L.M. Kit Carson ("Paris, Texas") on re-writing while shooting
- Academy-Award Winner Kenneth Lonergan ("You Can Count on Me") on script editing
- Roger Nygard ("Suckers") on mixing genres
This is the book for anyone who's serious about writing a screenplay that can get produced!
Grab it today!
★★★★★
"A perfect read for anyone who wants to write a film script or for anyone who just enjoys watching movies."
Fred Willard, Actor, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman
"This volume is packed full of useful little nuggets of information."
Jonathan Lynn, Director, My Cousin Vinny, Clue, Nuns on the Run, The Whole Nine Yards
"Packed with war stories and savvy advice for beginning screenwriters."
Larry Gross, Screenwriter, 48 hrs., Streets of Fire, True Crime
John Gaspard
John Gaspard is the author of the popular Eli Marks mystery series, about a working magician who stumbles into murder cases. In real life, John's not a magician, but he has directed several feature films that cost very little and made even less--and that's no small trick. He's also written multiple books on the subject of low-budget filmmaking. Ironically, they've made more than the films.
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