Stranger Than Fiction: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Scripts) - Softcover

Helm, Zach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557047502 ISBN 13: 9781557047502

Publisher: Newmarket Press, 2006

Synopsis

The only book tie-in to the major Columbia Pictures film starring Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, and Emma Thompson, directed by Marc Forster.

In this inventive comedy, a novelist (Emma Thompson) struggles to complete her latest, and potentially finest, book-she only has to find a way to kill off her main character, IRS agent Harold Crick, and she'll be done. Little does she know that Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is inexplicably alive and well in the real world and suddenly aware of her words. Fiction and reality collide when the bewildered and hilariously resistant Harold hears what she has in mind and realizes he must find a way to change her (and his) ending. Stranger Than Fiction sustains an elaborate balancing act between comedy and tragedy as one man awakens to his true nature.

The Newmarket Shooting Script book includes:
• Foreword by director Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball)
• Introduction by producer Lindsay Doran (Sense and Sensibility)
• Complete Shooting Script
• Scene notes, and facsimile journal entries by Zach Helm
• 33 color stills
• Cast and crew credits and filmmaker bios

About this title

About the Author

Zach Helm makes his screenwriting debut with Stranger Than Fiction. On his next film, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, he is both writer and director. Marc Forster previously directed Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball and is in production on The Kite Runner. Lindsay Doran previously produced Sense and Sensibility.

From the Back Cover

In this strange and delightful tale, an IRS agent namedHarold Crick suddenly finds himself the subject of a narrationonly he can hear—narration that soon affects everythingfrom his work to his love life to his death. Starring WillFerrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah,and Emma Thompson, Stranger Than Fiction is a heartfelt film,perhaps a comedy, perhaps a tragedy, about love and literatureand death and taxes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Newmarket Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557047502
• ISBN 13: 9781557047502
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176