
Now a Major Motion Picture
Peter Wise(Author)
Troubador Publishing
Will be published approx. on 28. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
472 pages
978-1-83628-493-2 (ISBN)
Description
What if Hollywood finally called - only to hand you the role of lifetime victim?
Rodney Mullins is a failed screenwriter with a stack of rejections and few shreds of hope. Then Oscar-winning director Marc Kessler offers him the job of a lifetime: shadow the great man, chronicle his films, and maybe - just maybe - Rodney will see his own script reach the screen.
Once on his roller-coaster ride, Rodney's confidence grows, but attempts to have an influence on what's happening around him often result in unintended, awkward and sometimes hilarious consequences.
But working with Kessler is no dream. He is capricious: sometimes brutal and humiliating, sometimes a mate, encouraging - and all is complicated by Gloria, Kessler's dazzling wife, who Rodney is totally smitten by. Does he really believe he can be a better partner to her than Marc Kessler?
Rodney is caught between ambition, obsession, and betrayal in a world where everyone steals something - ideas, hearts, or lives.
When the credits finally roll, will Rodney discover he's written his own comeback... or his own ruin?
Rodney Mullins is a failed screenwriter with a stack of rejections and few shreds of hope. Then Oscar-winning director Marc Kessler offers him the job of a lifetime: shadow the great man, chronicle his films, and maybe - just maybe - Rodney will see his own script reach the screen.
Once on his roller-coaster ride, Rodney's confidence grows, but attempts to have an influence on what's happening around him often result in unintended, awkward and sometimes hilarious consequences.
But working with Kessler is no dream. He is capricious: sometimes brutal and humiliating, sometimes a mate, encouraging - and all is complicated by Gloria, Kessler's dazzling wife, who Rodney is totally smitten by. Does he really believe he can be a better partner to her than Marc Kessler?
Rodney is caught between ambition, obsession, and betrayal in a world where everyone steals something - ideas, hearts, or lives.
When the credits finally roll, will Rodney discover he's written his own comeback... or his own ruin?
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Market Harborough
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 129 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
428 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83628-493-2 (9781836284932)
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Person
Peter Wise has been a timber merchant, film editor, builder and interior designer. He has written more than twenty stage plays, several pilots for TV sitcoms and drama series, material for "The Two Ronnies" and other TV comedy shows. He's also had six plays produced in fringe theatres.