Traffic: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script) - Hardcover

Gaghan, Steven

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557044821 ISBN 13: 9781557044822

Verlag: Newmarket Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Director (Steven Soderburgh), Best Supporting Actor (Benicio Del Toro), Adapted Screenplay, and Editing. Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay.

In the Newmarket Shooting Script^® format, the only tie-in to the new film by Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight), a contemporary thriller set in the world of drug trafficking starring an ensemble cast that includes Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Albert Finney, and Don Cheadle—from USA Films.

From a border policeman in Mexico caught in a web of corruption, to the conservative judge appointed by the President as the new anti-drug czar, to undercover DEA agents fighting a drug cartel, to the wife of a drug baron and the judge's drug-addicted teenage daughter, Traffic evokes the high stakes and high risks of the drug trade, as seen through a series of interrelated stories, some of which are highly personal and some of which are filled with intrigue and danger.

The Newmarket book includes the complete shooting script, an introduction in the form of a conversation between Steven Soderbergh and Stephen Gaghan written especially for this edition, 30 b/w film stills, and the complete credits.

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Winner of the 2001 Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay In the Newmarket Shooting Script format, the only tie-in to the new film by Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight), a contemporary thriller set in the world of drug trafficking starring an ensemble cast that includes Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Albert Finney, and Don Cheadlefrom USA Films. From a border policeman in Mexico caught in a web of corruption, to the conservative judge appointed by the President as the new anti-drug czar, to undercover DEA agents fighting a drug cartel, to the wife of a drug baron and the judge's drug-addicted teenage daughter, Traffic evokes the high stakes and high risks of the drug trade, as seen through a series of interrelated stories, some of which are highly personal and some of which are filled with intrigue and danger. The Newmarket book includes the complete shooting script, an introduction in the form of a conversation between Steven Soderbergh and Stephen Gaghan written especially for this edition, 30 b/w film stills, and the complete credits.

Biografía del autor

Stephen Gaghan wrote the screenplay for Rules of Engagement and teleplays for TV's The Practice, American Gothic, and NYPD Blue, for which he won the 1997 Emmy for Best Dramatic Writing. His short fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review. He lives in Los Angeles.

Steven Soderbergh also directed Eric Brockovich, Out of Sight, Gray's Anatomy, The Limey, Schizopolis, The Underneath, King of the Hill, Kafka, and Sex, Lies, and Videotape for which he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Soderbergh's Out of Sight received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Newmarket Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1557044821
• ISBN 13: 9781557044822
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar