The Matrix: The Shooting Script
10 best books like The Matrix: The Shooting Script (Lana Wachowski): Memento & Following, Requiem for a Dream (Screenplay), The Truman Show: The Shooting Script, American Beauty: The Shooting Script, Slumdog Millionaire: The Shooting Script, The Dark Knight, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script, Good Will Hunting, Lost Highway, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
| Author | Christopher J. Nolan |
| ISBN | 0571210473 |
Christopher Nolan's Memento is an intricate, original, fascinating thriller, hailed by Philip French of the Observer as 'one of the year's most exciting pictures'. Its protagonist Leonard (Guy Pearce) is a puzzle, even to himself. He sports the trappings of an expensive lifestyle, yet he lives in...
From the writer/director of the acclaimed film Pi, the screen-adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s classic cult novel. Requiem for a Dream is a modern-day fable set on the rusted mean streets of Brooklyn's Coney Island that follows the stories of four people desperately in pursuit of a better life. Oscar-winning...
| Author | Andrew Niccol |
| ISBN | 1557043671 |
Jim Carrey is Truman Burbank, the most famous face on television, only he doesn't know it. He is the unwitting star of a nonstop, 24-hour-a-day documentary soap opera called The Truman Show, with every moment of his life broadcast to a worldwide audience. Everyone around him is an actor. He is a prisoner...
| Author | Alan Ball |
| ISBN | 1557044236 |
On a typical suburban street in a typical suburban town, there is an ordinary family living the American dream. But look closer. Lester Burnham's wife, Carolyn, regards him with contempt, his daughter, Jane, thinks he's a loser, and his boss is positioning him for the ax.
Captivated by Jane's...
| Author | Gina Mayer |
| ISBN | 1848420390 |
At first glance, “Slumdog Millionaire”, written by Vikas Swarup, would appear to be a story about someone that wins a bunch of cash in the Indian Slum but, it is much more than that. “Slumdog Millionaire” is written in the perspective of a young boy named, Ram Mohammad Thomas. Suspected of cheating...
| Author | Dennis O'Neil |
| ISBN | 0425222861 |
Based on the blockbuster Warner Bros. Pictures film starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger.
Allied with both the police department and the district attorney's office, the vigilante known as Batman continues to bring justice and hope to Gotham City.
But one man dares to mock Batman's...
| Author | Charlie Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1557046107 |
In this illuminating script book, Charlie Kaufman, the Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, shares the logistical challenges of writing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a fascinating interview.
Kaufman also provides commentary on...
As director Gus Van Sant observes in the introduction to Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's screenplay Good Will Hunting, the two young actors somewhat resemble the characters they play in the film: they're best friends, and Affleck (who plays Chuckie) habitually chauffeurs Damon (Will), who doesn't...
| Author | David Lynch |
| ISBN | 0571191509 |
Sitting on Death Row, awaiting execution for the murder of his wife, Fred Madison experiences a shattering headache. The next day, a dazed and confused Pete Dayton is found in Madison's cell. Dayton has no memory of how he came to be there. Madison has gone missing. What follows may be reality or it may...
| Author | Quentin Tarantino |
| ISBN | 0786881046 |
Quentin Tarantino - director of "Reservoir Dogs" and writer of "True Romance" - won the Palme d'Or for best film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival for "Pulp Fiction, " his unique vision of the underworld, starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, and Harvey Keitel. Taking his...
| Author | Christopher J. Nolan |
| ISBN | 1608870154 |
Inception, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s seventh feature film, joins the epic scope of The Dark Knight with the narrative sophistication of Memento. The story of a group of thieves who specialize in invading the mind through one’s dreams, Inception explores the Nolan’s signature...
| Author | Frank Darabont |
| ISBN | 1557042462 |
This modern film classic, an extraordinary tale of hope and survival inside a maximum security prison, follows the complex twenty-year relationship between two convicts who have little in common—except friendship. Based on the novella Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King,...
| Author | Randall Wallace |
| ISBN | 0671522817 |
For love of country, for love of maiden, for love of freedom ... he became the hammer and scourge of England.
In one of history's darkest hours there arose from humble beginnings a man of courage and honor—the likes of whom the world may never see again. Amid the color, pageantry, and violence...
| Author | Andrew Neiderman |
| ISBN | 0671014102 |
DEFENDER OF THE DAMNED... When Kevin Taylor joins the Manhattan criminal law firm of John Milton and Associates, he's hit the big time. At last, he and his wife can enjoy the luxuries they've so desired-- a chauffeur-driven limo, a stunning home in the very building that Mr. Milton himself lives in. Little...
This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F.X. Toole, is the basis for the Oscar-winning motion picture starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. Breathing life into vivid,...
