Scripts		The Hurt Locker: the shooting script Mark Boal Newmarket Press, 2010 $29.95 pb The Hurt Locker is a riveting, extraordinary story of courage and survival on the Baghdad bomb squad, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, from a script by journalist and screenwriter Mark Boal, who researched the material by traveling to the war in Iraq where he was embedded with the U.S. Army bomb squad in 2004. Boal's screenplay, a fictional tale inspired by real events, follows the layered, complex relationship between three soldiers who are thrown together in the crucible of combat. It won an Academy Award.
Scripts		Inglourious Basterds screenplay Quentin Tarantino Faber, 2009 $29.99 pb Inglourious Basterds is set during World War II and stars Brad Pitt, Mike Myers and Diane Kruger. A band of Jewish-American soldiers known as 'The Basterds' spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis, while in Paris a young Jewish French woman who runs a movie theatre is involved in a plot to kill Hitler during the premiere of a movie. Inglourious Basterds has the violence, humour, cracking dialogue, and band-of-brothers camaraderie of Reservoir Dogs, as well as the profound courage and sense of honour of the greatest World War II movies.
Scripts		Juno: the shooting script Diablo Cody Newmarket Press, 2008 $39.95 pb The official screenplay book tie-in to the highly acclaimed movie from Fox Searchlight Pictures, written by Diablo Cody (author if Candy Girl) and directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking), tells the story of a confidently frank teenage girl who calls the shots with a nonchalant cool and an effortless attitude as she journeys through an emotional nine-month adventure into adulthood.
Scripts		The Road Joe Penhall Methuen, 2010 $22.99pb The screenplay for the film version of Cormac McCarthy's searing novel The Road, adapted by award-winning playwright Joe Penhall and directed by Australian, John Hillcoat. Available August 2010.
Scripts		A Serious Man Joel & Ethan Coen Faber, 2009 $27.99 pb It is 1967 and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him since she has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues. His domestic woes accumulate in typical Coen Brothers fashion.
Scripts		Slumdog Millionaire: the shooting script Simon Beaufoy Newmarket Press, 2009 $39.95 pb Simon Beaufoy’s adaptation for the screen of the novel, “Q&A” by Vikas Swarup.