Dreamcatcher : the shooting script / screenplay by William Goldman and Lawrence Kasdan ; based on the book by Stephen King ; introductions by Stephen King, William Goldman & Lawrence Kasdan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, William, 1931-2018.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Kasdan, Lawrence, 1949-

King, Stephen, 1947-

Series:

Newmarket shooting script series book

A Newmarket shooting script series book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreamcatcher (Motion picture).

Motion picture plays.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Shooting script : dreamcatcher

Place of Publication:

New York : Newmarket Press, [2003]

Summary:

In this fascinating Newmarket Shooting Script, which illuminates the process of how books are adapted to film, Stephen King, William Goldman, and Lawrence Kasdan contribute introductions, written exclusively for this edition, that tell how each one -- novelist, screenwriter, screenwriter/director -- approached the adaptation of King's novel Dreamcatcher to the film. In addition to the complete shooting script, the book also includes a section, entitled "Metamorphosis: Book to Script to Film," showing in a nutshell how the Dreamcatcher story progressed from the imagination of King, through the adaptation by Goldman and Kasdan, and then finally into its realization on film by Kasdan and his crew. Five specific scenes are dissected in detail, juxtaposing the paragraph in the King novel with the corresponding script scenes, and illustrated with storyboards, drawings, movie stills, or shot breakdowns. Commentary from various crew members provides an in-depth look into the filmmaking process.

Dreamcatcher is the story of four friends: Jonesy, Henry, Pete, and Beaver. Twenty years ago they were just kids in a small town in Maine -- kids who found the courage to respond heroically to childhood cruelty. In saving a strange boy named Duddits, they unexpectedly gained a fifth friend at the center of their circle. Even more unexpected were the uncanny powers he conveyed to them, bonding them all beyond ordinary friendship. But when they reunite for their annual visit to a hunting cabin in the north woods, anticipating only the warmth and humor that nourishes them, they are overtaken by a gathering doom. First comes a stranger, a lost hunter unaware of the terrible contagion he bears. On his heels is a blizzard, a vicious storm in which something much more ominous moves -- a deadly alien force that will consume some of the foursome and force those who make it to the end of the road to once again summon their forgotten strength... and confront an unparalleled horror. The film stars Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Tom Sizemore, and Donnie Wahlberg. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, with a screenplay by William Goldman and Lawrence Kasdan, based on the book by Stephen King, Dreamcatcher is a Castle Rock Entertainment presentation, released by Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures.

Contents:

"All Story, No Bacon" / Stephen King vii

"Adapting King" / William Goldman xiii

"Controlling the Fear" / Lawrence Kasdan xxi

The Shooting Script 1

Metamorphosis: Book to Script to Film 131

Actors/Filmmakers 162.

Related Work:

King, Stephen, 1947- Dreamcatcher.

ISBN:

1557045666

1557045674

OCLC:

52358943