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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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

Thank You Sonora ER, Dr Trujillo and Dr Johnson.

Microphone stand designed by Hudson. Our eight year old son, Hudson, has been having severe abdominal pain over the past week to ten days, and this week we took him to see Dr Jennifer Neufeld-Trujillo , one of our regular pediatricians at the Forest Road Pediatric Clinic in Sonora, and also to ER at Sonora Regional Medical Center. We just want to say a big thank you to everyone - including all the very friendly and helpful staff at ER - for their care of and concern for Hudson, who is gradually starting to feel better. We would also like to make a special mention of Dr Lisa Johnson , who was on call tonight for Forest Road Pediatrics, and who had a long telephone conversation with me, in which she answered many questions with a depth of knowledge and experience that was both highly reassuring and informative, and who left us feeling confident that we are on the right path for the weekend - always a difficult time when your child is not feeling well. Hopefully, Hudson will cont

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