Moonlight and Magnolias

Moonlight and Magnolias

by Ron Hutchinson
Moonlight and Magnolias

Moonlight and Magnolias

by Ron Hutchinson

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Overview

'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...


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781840028102
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/01/2008
Series: Oberon Modern Plays
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

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 worked with some of the biggest names in the Hollywood, including Marlon Brando, Samuel L Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor. He has written for HBO, Universal Studios, Showtime, and the BBC, amongst others and has got the scars to prove it.
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