Steve Starkey

Breaking and Entering (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How does one learn to become a film producer? Steve Starkey followed a circuitous and rather unlikely path that started with no job prospects or film-related experience that eventually led to working alongside some of the most influential directors of his generation, including George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis. A witty and engaging storyteller, Starkey recounts how he broke into the film business by sneaking onto the lot at Universal Studios and landed his first job as an electrician doing set lighting. He then relocated to the Bay Area and was hired as a production assistant at Lucasfilm, a small but growing company, fresh off of Star Wars. While running errands, he moonlighted in the editing room and became the assistant editor on both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

His stories about being an associate producer on Amblin's TV series Amazing Stories offer insights into the directorial styles of Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and many others. As an associate producer of the Robert Zemeckis films Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Back to the Future II and III, Starkey and a vast talented crew of artists and technicians tackled and ultimately perfected groundbreaking techniques to create movies that changed cinema. After prepping Spielberg's Jurassic Park, Starkey was asked by Robert Zemeckis to produce the film Death Becomes Her, the first in a long line of popular and award-winning features that they made together.

Entertaining and enlightening, Breaking & Entering is a book about taking risks, being resourceful, working hard, working harder, and pursuing a dream. It's a book for anyone who ever sat through a movie and wondered how in the world could I get a job as a film producer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sand Point Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780578270272
• Artikelnr.: 66678499

Autorenporträt

Academy Award-winning producer Steve Starkey is a longtime collaborator with legendary filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. After producing Death Becomes Her, his first film with Zemeckis, Starkey went on to produce and win the Academy Award for Best Picture on the film Forrest Gump. Following the film Contact, Zemeckis and Starkey formed the company ImageMovers with agent Jack Rapke. The first of their distinctive films with the new company included What Lies Beneath and Cast Away. After producing The Polar Express, Beowulf, and Monster House, the first feature-length films using motion-capture technology, Zemeckis, Rapke, and Starkey launched a company at Disney, Imagemovers Digital, to make feature films using that technology. A Christmas Carol and Mars Needs Moms were made under their new banner. During this time, Starkey produced films for a number of other directors, including Matchstick Men with Ridley Scott and The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio with Jane Anderson. Returning to live-action filmmaking, Zemeckis and Starkey continued their collaboration on Flight, The Walk, Allied, and Welcome to Marwen.