Dan O’Bannon’s Guide To Screenplay Structure
Inside tips from the writer of Alien, Total Recall and Return of The Living Dead
Book Review
Written by: Dan O’Bannon & Matt Lohr
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Released: January 1, 2013
ISBN: 978-1615931309

A book about screenwriting isn’t for everyone, at least that is what I told myself before reading this one. This is not just another self-help book or a textbook for a course at the Learning Annex or a local University. Due to the generous insight of Mr. O’Bannon and the persistent work of Matt R. Lohr, this is a straight shooting, not stuffy, cut the crap book about the creation of a screenplay…a really good screenplay that works. He shares the system he created that he called “dynamic structure.” This should certainly be valuable to those who are currently trying to write a script or those contemplating doing so. Nevertheless it is also more than that.
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