HAUNT: Screenplay & Filmmaker Diaries from A Quiet Place writers, Scott Beck & Bryan Woods is now available wherever books are sold, but you can take an exclusive sneak peek inside the pages right now. Have you ever wanted to pick a filmmaker’s brain and follow their thought process as they take a movie from concept through creation? Of course you have, that’s why you’re here, right!?
This book gives a detailed behind-the-scenes look into Beck and Woods’ journey. I mean, they’re letting us read their diaries! It doesn’t get much more detailed than that, folks. And they’re sharing it all with us for an additional good cause, all profits will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Fulfill your cinematic passion and do some good in the process. Now that’s something we can get behind!
While writing and directing their feature Haunt, produced by icon Eli Roth, Beck and 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 are notes about the early development of their upcoming film 65, starring Adam Driver for Columbia Pictures, which will be released worldwide in early 2023, as well as their adaptation for Stephen King’s The Boogeyman, which is in post for 20th Century Studios.
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. Writers of 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. Take a look inside the book below. We have ten pages from the book, consisting of a combination of their introduction, diaries, and some haunted house design graphics. Nine of these pages have never been shared online, so consider this a little appetizer treat, and then grab your very own copy (or gift it to the Beck and Woods lover in your life!)
