Exclusive: Three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has gone back to his roots for Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador and the Movie Game. Just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book is a personal reminiscence, the coming of age of a great filmmaker. Stone describes in detail everything from his experience in Vietnam, liberal drug use upon his return that once almost got him tried on drug smuggling charges, finding and losing love, and scratching his way from being a part-time cab driver to an Oscar winner for his Midnight Express script in just 18 months.
Chasing the Light is a gracefully written memoir with plenty of dish about the formation of a great career. Bottom line: Sure, talent helps, and Stone had it both as writer and director. But the real keys are an iron will to succeed and a...
Chasing the Light is a gracefully written memoir with plenty of dish about the formation of a great career. Bottom line: Sure, talent helps, and Stone had it both as writer and director. But the real keys are an iron will to succeed and a...
- 7/28/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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