Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has gone back to his roots for Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador and the Movie Game.
Just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book is a personal reminiscence, the coming of age of a great filmmaker. Stone describes in detail everything from his experience in Vietnam, liberal drug use upon his return that once almost got him tried on drug smuggling charges, finding and losing love, and scratching his way from being a part time cab driver to an Oscar-winner for his Midnight Express script in just 18 months.
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