Books. They’re a right pain, aren’t they? They take absolutely ages to get through and they cost a fortune.
But without them we wouldn’t be able to read and we wouldn’t have some of the greatest movies ever made, movies like Die Hard and First Blood. Yes, both based on novels!
Books that inspired movie adaptations are wonderful, of course, but for me, the real gold has always been found in the books about what goes into making the movies.
I am always on the lookout for a good behind-the-scenes book about film, and the great ones are slightly harder to find these days, given that perhaps the market for new books about the filmmaking process doesn’t exactly rival fantasy romance.
However, over the past few years there have been a few literary gems in the movie-making category, books to throw on the pile with some of the greatest ever written.
With that in mind, I have decided to compile my own list of my favourite books about movies, just as I have added two more to my Kindle – Michael Douglas’s autobiography One Helluva Ride, and the brilliantly titled The Book Was Better by Louise Willder. Give me a few months – I am a notoriously slow reader – to see if those two find it on to the list below.
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