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Haunt: Screenplay & Filmmaker Diaries

Scott Beck

A Quiet Place writers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods offer a first-hand look at the life of a filmmaker and the brutal ups and downs that come with it. While writing and directing their feature Haunt, Beck & Woods kept in-depth journals charting their experience making the independent film, all while another script of theirs - A Quiet Place - was being produced by Paramount Pictures with stars Emily Blunt and John Krasinski. As the resulting film became a global sensation, Beck & Woods documented their journey through the wild landscape of failure, rejection, momentary success, rubbing elbows with cinematic heroes, and weathering the absurdity of Hollywood.


Also featured is the never-before-released screenplay for Haunt and an interview with the filmmakers conducted by author and screenwriting professor Scott Myers.


Scott Beck & Bryan Woods are writers, directors and producers. Beck & Woods' wrote A Quiet Place, which grossed over $340 million worldwide and earned them the Saturn Award for Best Writing, alongside nominations from the Writers Guild and the Critics' Choice Awards. The duo's follow-up includes writing and directing Columbia Pictures' 65 starring Adam Driver and adapting Stephen King's The Boogeyman into a feature for 20th Century Studios.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Weyland Yutani
  • Publish Date: Dec 6th, 2022
  • Pages: 248
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.25in - 0.52in - 0.58lb
  • EAN: 9798218059132
  • Categories: Film - ScreenwritingScreenplays

About the Author

Beck, Scott: - Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are writers, directors and producers. Beck and Woods' wrote A Quiet Place, which grossed over $340 million worldwide and earned them the Saturn Award for Best Writing, alongside nominations from the Writers Guild and the Critics Choice Awards. The duo's follow-up includes writing and directing Columbia Pictures' 65 starring Adam Driver and adapting Stephen King's The Boogeyman into a feature for 20th Century Studios.

Praise for this book

"Haunt is the best slasher movie of the year"

-Samuel R. Murrian, Parade


"Considerably more sophisticated... intelligently imagined"

-Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times


"Stylish and creative... a grisly horror gem"

-Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times