Emphasizing the craft of writing and the process of collaboration, this title looks at how Hollywood is changing to meet the economic and creative challenges. It explores how the screenwriters come up with their ideas, how they go about adapting a stage play or work of fiction, and how they organize and structure their work.
Patrick McGilligan continues his celebrated interviews with exceptional screenwriters in Backstory 5, focusing on the 1990s. The thirteen featured writersAlbert Brooks, Jean-Claude Carrière, Nora Ephron, Ronald Harwood, John Hughes, David Koepp, Richard LaGravenese, Barry Levinson, Eric Roth, John Sayles, Tom Stoppard, Barbara Turner, and Rudy Wurlitzerare not confined to the 1990s, but their engrossing, detailed, and richly personal stories create, in McGilligan's words, "a snapshot of a profession in motion." Emphasizing the craft of writing and the process of collaboration, this new volume looks at how Hollywood is changing to meet new economic and creative challenges.
"Intelligent talk on writing, filmmaking and the movie industry."
