Alexander Stuart

Author Hollywood Screenwriter Buddhist Former Journalist Marine Mammal.
Deeply concerned for the future of our planet.

The War Zone is my award-winning novel about incest and adolescent anger, filmed by Tim Roth, starring Tilda Swinton and Ray Winstone. The book is available on Kindle for $6.99 and as a trade paperback for $15.99.

Compared by Time Out to a contemporary Catcher In The Rye.

"From the novel’s first scene, the material is explosive" - New York Times Book Review.

"Stunning…Mysterious and deeply moving" - The Observer.

"The War Zone is a pungent, shocking book, superbly written, which presents the theme of incest not as a device of sexual titillation but as a symbol of social breakdown...I was horrified but seduced from first to last" - Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange.

Among my many screenplays, I wrote the first three drafts of Jonathan Glazer’s cult movie, Under The Skin (2014), starring Scarlett Johansson.

I’ve worked one-on-one as a screenwriter and producer with Angelina Jolie, Jodie Foster, Danny Boyle, Tim Roth, Kiefer Sutherland, Nicolas Roeg, Jonathan Glazer and major studios heads and executives (Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Bill Mechanic, Jeremy Thomas, Nick Wechsler), for studios including Warner Bros, Paramount, Film4 and Universal.

Tim Roth with Alexander Stuart.

I initiated and executive produced Nicolas Roeg’s award-winning film, Insignificance, about a mythical meeting between Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein.

I’ve had eight books published internationally, taught graduate level screenwriting at the University of Miami, have worked as a journalist and traveled the world from Europe, Asia, Australia and the US to the Middle East, Havana and Hanoi.

I was commissioned by the Miami Art Museum (now the Pérez Art Museum) to create a large wall-mounted written artwork filmloop/fragments, to accompany an exhibit by the acclaimed Polish sculptor, Magdalena Abakanowicz.

Although British-born, I now consider myself a California native.

More bio details at IMDb and Wikipedia.

International film and book agent:

Charles Walker, United Agents

Please email Charles' assistant, Christian Ogunbanjo: cogunbanjo@unitedagents.co.uk

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Video

If you'd like to watch a 45-minute talk I gave about Screenwriting for Hollywood and Independents at Film Fest Twain Harte, you can watch it here:

Peace

A very happy me with Wolf Alice, a band I love.

The High Tower Apartments and The Long Goodbye

Photograph by Dwayne Moser. This beautiful apartment complex in Los Angeles is called the Hightower or High Tower Complex (the High Tower name refers to the central elevator, I believe), and was designed in 1935-1936 by architect Carl Kay - and made famous in 1973 by my favorite film, Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (see Why I Love Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye ). Although Altman used the building as Philip Marlowe's apartment in his somewhat post-modern Long Goodbye (the film plays with references to Old Hollywood and opens and closes with the song, Hooray For Hollywood ), the building has another direct connection to Raymond Chandler. It was apparently the inspiration for Chandler in his book, The High Window (the first Chandler novel I ever read), in which Chandler describes the residence of Philip Marlowe as being on the cliffs above High Tower Drive in a building with a fancy elevator tower. (Thanks to the Society of Architectural Historians Southern...

The Story Behind the Immortal Bass Line of Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side (VIDEO)

Of all the tributes to, and stories about, Lou Reed over the past week, this is one of the most fascinating - even though it doesn't directly concern Reed himself, but rather Herbie Flowers , the legendary British bass player who created the immortal bass line that opens Reed's massive solo hit, Walk On The Wild Side. When I first heard Walk On The Wild Side, it seemed the ultimate late night New York song: a transgender story (which apparently radio stations in the 1970s and since didn't even pick up on, despite the line, " Shaved his legs and then he was a she ") featuring characters from Andy Warhol's Factory , which sounded as if it had been recorded at about 1 am in some smoky lowdown basement hangout in the East Village. The video above reveals the immense influence of Herbie Flowers - who had worked with David Bowie , who produced Walk On The Wild Side and the Lou Reed album it came from, Transformer , on Bowie's own classic breakout s...

Timeless

I haven't written on this blog since 2021, soon after Joe Biden became President and the horrors of the OG Thug passed. I'm still here, I'm still enjoying life, but I have to say that this November worries me greatly. The better part of me cannot believe that America will return a criminal insurgent to the White House...but a tiny part of me wonders if such insanity is possible. I no longer have the faith in humanity I once had; I have most of it but the Fetid Pumpkin took the rest. We'll see come November. Do whatever you can to make it not so.

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