MARC NORMAN won two Oscars for Shakespeare in Love in 1999, one for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (with Tom Stoppard) and another for Best Picture (shared with Donna Gigliotti, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, and Edward Zwick), along with a Golden Globe, a Writers Guild Best Screenplay Award, a New York Film Critics Circle Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Silver Bear Award from the Berlin Film Festival. He lives in Santa Monica, California. This is his first work of nonfiction.
“Fascinating.”
—Los Angeles Times
“A remarkable synthesis . . . the best, by far.”
—Scott Eyman, New York Observer
“A history of American film in which the camera pans away from its
presumptive stars and searches out the ink-stained wretches huddled
over typewriters.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Irreplaceable . . . Without question, the best treatment of the
subject since Richard Corliss’s Talking Pictures in 1974.”
—Buffalo News
“Excellent . . . A book that deserves to become a classic of the
genre.”
—The Times (London)
“Marc Norman is not only a wonderful and talented screenwriter in
his own right, but he has done a great job of laying out
screenwriting’s evolution in this excellent, comprehensive history.
A must read for anyone who wants to know this important piece of
the puzzle of Hollywood.”
—Mike Medavoy
“A stunningly entertaining way to tell the history of Hollywood.
But what’s amazing about this wonderful book is not just that it’s
relentlessly insightful, constantly surprising and beautifully
written–what’s amazing is that no one has done this before. This is
one terrific book.”
—Phil Robinson, author (screenplay) of Field of Dreams
“Marc Norman's What Happens Next is not only a fine book, it's a
necessary book, brilliantly narrating the turbulent saga of 100
years of American screenwriting with energy, style, and an
insider's sympathetic understanding of the always uneasy marriage
between a primarily visual medium and the people who use words as
its architecture.”
—Scott Eyman, author, Lion of Hollywood
"Marc Norman has created a comprehensive narrative of what is
essentially a secret history. Entertaining, surprising and
endlessly fascinating, he throws a bright light into a corner of
our film heritage that has been habitually, even criminally,
ignored."
—Lawrence Kasdan, co-screenwriter and director of The Big Chill
"At last! Hollywood History from a screenwriting perspective— a
compelling, enlightening, and important work."
—Dave Trottier, author The Screenwriter's Bible
"Fascinating."
-Los Angeles Times
"A remarkable synthesis . . . the best, by far."
-Scott Eyman, New York Observer
"A history of American film in which the camera pans away from its
presumptive stars and searches out the ink-stained wretches huddled
over typewriters."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"Irreplaceable . . . Without question, the best treatment of the
subject since Richard Corliss's Talking Pictures in 1974."
-Buffalo News
"Excellent . . . A book that deserves to become a classic of the
genre."
-The Times (London)
"Marc Norman is not only a wonderful and talented screenwriter in
his own right, but he has done a great job of laying out
screenwriting's evolution in this excellent, comprehensive history.
A must read for anyone who wants to know this important piece of
the puzzle of Hollywood."
-Mike Medavoy
"A stunningly entertaining way to tell the history of Hollywood.
But what's amazing about this wonderful book is not just that it's
relentlessly insightful, constantly surprising and beautifully
written-what's amazing is that no one has done this before. This is
one terrific book."
-Phil Robinson, author (screenplay) of Field of
Dreams
"Marc Norman's What Happens Next is not only a fine book,
it's a necessary book, brilliantly narrating the turbulent saga of
100 years of American screenwriting with energy, style, and an
insider's sympathetic understanding of the always uneasy marriage
between a primarily visual medium and the people who use words as
its architecture."
-Scott Eyman, author, Lion of Hollywood
"Marc Norman has created a comprehensive narrative of what
is essentially a secret history. Entertaining, surprising and
endlessly fascinating, he throws a bright light into a corner of
our film heritage that has been habitually, even criminally,
ignored."
-Lawrence Kasdan, co-screenwriter and director of The Big
Chill
"At last! Hollywood History from a screenwriting perspective- a
compelling, enlightening, and important work."
-Dave Trottier, author The Screenwriter's Bible
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