Stranger Than Fiction (Shooting Script)

Helm, Zach; Forster, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557047502 ISBN 13: 9781557047502

Publisher: Newmarket Press,U.S., 2006

In this strange and delightful tale, an IRS agent namedHarold Crick suddenly finds himself the subject of a narrationonly he can hear--narration that soon affects everythingfrom his work to his love life to his death. Starring WillFerrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, and Emma Thompson, Stranger Than Fiction is a heartfelt film, perhaps a comedy, perhaps a tragedy, about love and literatureand death and taxes.

Synopsis:

From director Marc Forster ("Finding Neverland", "Monster's Ball") comes this star-studded, inventive comedy in which fiction and reality collide with often bewildering and hilarious results. Novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson) is struggling to complete her latest, and potentially finest, book - all she has to do is find a way to kill off her main character, IRS agent Harold Crick. Little does she know that Harold (Will Ferrell) is actually alive and well in the real world. Things start to get "Stranger Than Fiction" when Harold wakes up to find that he can hear Kay narrating his life and discovers what she has in mind for his character - he then embarks on a desperate mission to find her and change his ending. This superb companion to the film includes the complete shooting script, a foreword by the director Marc Forster, and an introduction by the producer Lindsay Doran.

About the Author:

Zach Helm makes his screenwriting debut withStranger Than Fiction. On his next film, Mr.Magorium's Wonder Emporium, he is both writerand director.