Fast, Cheap & Written That Way: Top Screenwriters on Writing for Low-Budget Movies

It’s like taking a Master Class in screenwriting ... all in one book!

Discover the pitfalls of writing to fit a budget from screenwriters who have successfully navigated these waters already. Learn from their mistakes and improve your script with their expert advice.

"I wish I'd read this book before I made Re-Animator."—Stuart Gordon, Director, Re-Animator, Castle Freak, From Beyond

The book covers (among other topics):

• Academy-Award Winner Dan Futterman (“Capote”) on writing real stories
• Tom DiCillio (“Living In Oblivion”) on turning a short into a feature
• Kasi Lemmons (“Eve’s Bayou”) on writing for a different time period
• George Romero (“Martin”) on writing horror on a budget
• Rebecca Miller (“Personal Velocity”) on adapting short stories
• Stuart Gordon (“Re-Animator”) on adaptations
• Academy-Award Nominee Whit Stillman (“Metropolitan”) on cheap ways to make it look expensive
• Miranda July (“Me and You and Everyone We Know”) on making your writing spontaneous
• Alex Cox (“Repo Man”) on scaling the script to meet a budget
• Joan Micklin Silver (“Hester Street”) on writing history on a budget
• Bob Clark (“Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things”) on mixing humor and horror
• And more!

This is the book for anyone who’s serious about writing a screenplay that can get produced!