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Fast, Cheap & Written That Way: Top Screenwriters on Writing for Low-Budget Movies
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Series: Fast, Cheap Filmmaking Books, Book 2
Business GeneralScreenplaysScreenwriting
Publisher: Albert's Bridge Books
Published: Apr 24 2021
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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
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!
★★★★★
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
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