Product Description

Now published for the first time, the Oscar®-winning script for the film starring Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, and Lynn Redgrave—in the Newmarket Shooting Script® series format, with new introductions written especially for this edition.

This critically acclaimed film was chosen by Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, Rolling Stone, USA Today, The Washington Post, and more than 100 other newspapers and magazines as one of the Ten Best Films of 1998. Based on the novel Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram, the film, written and directed by Bill Condon, garnered major prizes for Condon, Ian McKellen, and Lynn Redgrave.

In the acclaimed Newmarket Shooting Script® series, this volume includes a facsimile of the script, a foreword by Clive Barker about his talks with Condon on how to bring cinematic life to James Whale's story, an introduction by Ian McKellen, and complete cast and crew credits. Also included is a portfolio of photographs by Anne Fishbein chosen especially by Condon for this book. 25 b/w photos.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1629625 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Review
Bill Condon has made a deeply touching, elegant, and inventive biographical fantasy. . . . His script is a tidy juggernaut of conversation-intense, chess-game conversation full of believable fits and starts. How he shaped it so well is a sweet mystery of life. -- Entertainment Weekly

Bill Condon has made a deeply touching, elegant, and inventive biographical fantasy....His script is a tidy juggernaut of conversation. -- Entertainment Weekly

One of the great pleasures of my life. -- Clive Barker

This is one of those rare screenplays that the actors felt no need to tamper with. -- Ian McKellen

About the Author
Screenwriter Bill Condon wrote and directed Gods and Monsters, the Oscar® winner for Best Adapted Screenplay and the National Board of Review's best film of 1998. Condon made his directing debut with Sister, Sister. Most recently he wrote Best Picture Oscar®-winner Chicago and wrote/directed the fall 2004 release Kinsey.