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True Indie: Life and Death in Filmmaking
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From Don Coscarelli, the celebrated filmmaker behind many cherished cult classics comes a memoir thats both revealing autobiography and indie film crash course.Best known for his horror/scifi/fantasy films including Phantasm, The Beastmaster, Bubba Hotep and John Dies at the End, now Don Coscarellis taking you on a whiteknuckle ride through the rough and tumble world of indie film.Join Coscarelli as he sells his first feature film to Universal Pictures and gets his own office on the studio lot while still in his teens. Travel with him as he chaperones three outofcontrol child actors as they barnstorm Japan, almost drowns actress Catherine Keener in her first film role, and transforms a short story about Elvis Presley battling a four thousand yearold Egyptian mummy into a beloved cult classic film.Witness the incredible cast of characters he meets along the way from heavy metal god Ronnie James Dio to firsttime filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. Learn how breaking bread with genre icons Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter and Guillermo Del Toro leads to a major cable series and watch as he and zombie king George A. Romero together take over an unprepared national network television show with their tales of blood and horror.This memoir fits an entire film school education into a single book. Its loaded with behindthescenes stories: like setting his face on fire during the making of Phantasm, hearing Bruce Campbells most important question before agreeing to star in Bubba Hotep, and crafting a horror thriller into a franchise phenomenon spanning four decades. Find out how Coscarelli managed to retain creative and financial control of his artistic works in an industry ruled by powerhungry predators, and all without going insane or bankrupt.True Indie will prove indispensable for fans of Coscarellis movies, aspiring filmmakers, and anyone who loves a story of an underdog who prevails while not betraying what he believes.
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