Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Auteur filmmakers tend to wear a few unlike hats . In add-on to writing and directing their own movies , they now and then pretend as their own cinematographer , editor , and/or composer , and sometimes pop up in performing roles in their own films . Directors who enjoy this kind of exemption incline to get over over into written material ledger at some power point in their careers . As a far less expensive mass medium , the humankind of lit has a lot less red tape and few meddling executives than the world of filmmaking .
With the double whammy of his novelisation ofOnce Upon a fourth dimension in Hollywoodand his coming book of moving picture critique , Quentin Tarantino is the later managing director to make this modulation . From Ethan Coen to Guillermo del Toro , many iconic movie maker have dabbled in authoring Quran .
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino ’s screenplays have always had a novelistic character . He ’s renowned for his nonlinear narration and long negotiation scenes , and many of his plastic film are split into chapters . So , it was barely surprising when Tarantino became a novelist himself .
His first published book , a novelisation ofOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood , alter a lot of major game points from the movie and filled in all the unobserved backstory . Tarantino ’s first non - fiction book , Cinema Speculation – a Pauline Kael - inspired piece of work of film criticism about the New Hollywood movement – is fix to be published on October 25 .
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone , perhaps the most politically charged mainstream filmmaker in Hollywood , famously tackled his Vietnam experience inPlatoon , one of the most harrowing cinematic portrayals of the war .
The writer - film director dealt with similar guinea pig thing in his novelA Child ’s Night Dream , a coloured , psychedelic odyssey through the horrors of unjust warfare .
Guillermo Del Toro
Guillermo del Toro is one of the most delightfully turn minds in horror cinema . His films are defined by their sympathetic portrait of traditional movie monster , from Hellboy to the Amphibian Man to Stan Carlisle .
In 2009 , 2010 , and 2011 , del Toro co - wrote a trilogy of lamia novels with Chuck Hogan , known conjointly asThe Straintrilogy . These Good Book were later adapted into an FX horror serial that lasted for four seasons .
James Gunn
Before making his directorial debut with the wonderful boron - moving-picture show homageSlither , James Gunn worked as a screenwriter - for - hirefor about a decade . During this time , he pen two resilient - actionScooby - Doomovies , a remaking ofDawn of the Dead , and publish his debut novel , The Toy Collector .
unquestionably darker than Gunn ’s movies , The Toy Collectortells the report of a hospital orderly who sells drugs he stole from workplace to fund his addiction to toy dog and memorabilia .
Nora Ephron
In the same year that Nora Ephron won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for her debut movie scriptSilkwood , she published her first novel , Heartburn .
Heartburnis a semi - autobiographical account of Ephron ’s marriage to fact-finding journalist Carl Bernstein . She adapted the book into her second bring on screenplay , which was meet with far less acclaim from critic .
John Boorman
John Boorman has helm such hugely influential cinematic classics asPoint BlankandDeliverance . Throughout his filmmaking vocation , Boorman has earned five Oscar nominations , including two for Best Director . He was knighted to begin with this year , too .
publish in 2016 , Boorman ’s debut novelCrime of Passionfocuses on a group of filmmakers trying to salvage their less - than - perfect opus . The book , featuring a cameo appearance by Boorman himself , was met with mixed reviews .
Tobe Hooper
Tobe Hooper is one of the most revered revulsion managing director of all sentence , having helmed grisly slasher likeThe Texas Chain Saw Massacreand paranormal chillers likePoltergeist .
print in 2011 , his first novelMidnight Moviehas the theme song sly self - sentience of Hooper ’s filmmaking . The story is about the false “ lost film ” of Hooper himself finally being screened at a New film festival , only to notice that the moving picture turns viewers into famished zombies .
Albert Brooks
Although he ’s best known as an actor and comic , Albert Brooks is also a revered filmmakerwho directed such masterfully crafted comedies asModern RomanceandLost in America . In 2010 , he publish his first novel,2030 : The Real Story of What come about to America .
A satiric work about a speculative future of the United States,2030reads like a news program story that has n’t been written yet . Brooks designate his personation of the future to be as plausible as potential .
Gus Van Sant
A pioneer of the New Queer Cinema movement , Gus Van Sant direct such masterpiecesasMilk , Elephant , Drugstore Cowboy , Good Will Hunting , andMy Own Private Idaho .
He bring out his absurdist , philosophical novellaPinkin 1997 . The storey concerns a middle - aged infomercial managing director who dreams of becoming a Hollywood sci - fi managing director .
Ethan Coen
The Coen blood brother usually work together , but they occasionally break up to do solo projects . Joel Coen recently spell and directed an adaption ofMacbethwithout his brother ’s contributions . In 1998 , Ethan Coen published a short story collection calledGates of Eden .
Gates of Edenhas a admixture of standard fiction and stories structure and formatted like scripts . The audiobook was read byCoen collaborators vagabond from John Goodmanto Steve Buscemi to John Turturro .
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