Moonlight and Magnolias

by Ron Hutchinson

2020-07-09 07:53:35

'There's your first problem. No Civil War movie ever made a dime. Or ever will.'Hollywood, 1939: semi-independent mogul David O.Selznick has just shut down production on the most eagerly anticipated movie in history - his megabudget version of Ma... Read more
'There's your first problem. No Civil War movie ever made a dime. Or ever will.'Hollywood, 1939: semi-independent mogul David O.Selznick has just shut down production on the most eagerly anticipated movie in history - his megabudget version of Margaret Mitchell's bestselling novel Gone with the Wind - scrapping the original script and sacking the director in the process.Determined to produce a rewrite in five days, he engages the reluctant services of ace script doctor Ben Hecht - possibly the only person in America who has not read the novel - and the movie's new director Victor Fleming, poached straight from the set of The Wizard of Oz . His reputation on the line, and with nothing but a stockpile of peanuts and bananas to sustain them, Selznick locks himself in his office with his two collaborators, and a marathon creative session begins... Less

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File size8.1x5.1x0.3inches
Print pages96
PublisherOberon Books
Publication date January 1, 2009
ISBN9781840028102
Ron Hutchinson is an Emmy-Award winning screenwriter and Olivier nominated playwright, who has taught at the American Film Institute, been a Writer in Residence for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and ...

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