In this fascinating Newmarket Shooting Script®,
which illuminates the process of how books are adapted to film, Stephen
King, William Goldman, and Lawrence Kasdan contribute introductions,
written exclusively for this book, that tell how each one—novelist,
screenwriter, screenwriter/director—approached the adaptation of King's
novel Dreamcatcher to the film.
In addition to the complete shooting script, the book also includes
a section, entitled "Metamorphosis: From Book to Script to Film,"
showing in a nutshell how the Dreamcatcher story progressed
from the imagination of King, through the adaptation by Goldman and
Kasdan, and then finally into its realization on film by Kasdan and his
crew. Five specific scenes are dissected in detail, juxtaposing the
paragraph from the King novel next to the corresponding script scenes,
and illustrated with storyboards, drawings, movie stills, or shot
breakdowns. Commentary from various crew members provides an in-depth
look into the filmmaking process.
Dreamcatcher is the story of four friends: Jonesy, Henry,
Pete, and Beaver. Twenty years ago they were just kids in a small town
in Maine—kids who found the courage to respond heroically to childhood
cruelty. In saving a strange boy named Duddits, they unexpectedly
gained a fifth friend at the center of their circle. Even more
unexpected were the uncanny powers he conveyed to them, bonding them
all beyond ordinary friendship.
The film stars Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis,
Timothy Olyphant, Tom Sizemore, and Donnie Wahlberg. Directed by
Lawrence Kasdan, with a screenplay by William Goldman and Lawrence
Kasdan, based on the book by Stephen King, Dreamcatcher is a Castle
Rock Entertainment presentation, released by Warner Bros./Village
Roadshow Pictures.
