
Riding the Alligator
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Pen Densham is an Oscar nominated writer-director-producer active in Hollywood today. He's produced 16 features and over 300 hours of TV series. He created the story for the revisionist Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and co-wrote and produced the screenplay with his Trilogy Entertainment Group partner, John Watson. He wrote and directed Moll Flanders for MGM, as well as writing and directing Houdini for TNT. Trilogy's latest is Phantom (2013).
He personally revived both the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits series to TV. And is honored to work with talent like Ed Harris, David Duchovny, Jay Baruchel, Jeff Bridges, Bill Murray, Morgan Freeman, Ron Howard, Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone, Jodie Foster, Emile Hirsch, Mark Ruffalo, and Robin Wright.
Pen also shares his philosophies and techniques at several major academic film institutions like USC and the Canadian Film Center.
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Acknowledgments
Foreword by Jay Roach
Introduction
1. The Golden Rule
2. In the Beginning
3. We All Have Doubts
4. Are My Ideas Any Good?
5. How to Structure a Story
6. Roles a Star Will Want to Play
7. We Can't have Heroes Without 'em
8. Now You Have a First Draft
9. Entering the Jungle
10. You and Your Story Go For a Ride
11. How Do I Survive Until I Get Paid to Write?
12. I Made a Sale. I'm in Development?
13. Beating the Blues
14. Thoughts from Other Screenwriters
15. Instant Screenwriting Library
16. Inspiration and Explorations
17. How do You Measure Passion?
18. Famous Last Words
Index
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