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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Stone, Oliver, author.

Title: Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon,

Midnight express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game / Oliver Stone.

Description: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020003631 (print) | LCCN 2020003632 (ebook) | ISBN 9780358346234 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780358345664 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Stone, Oliver. | Motion picture producers and Directors—United States—Biography.

Classification:LCC PN1998.3.S76 A3 2020 (print) | LCC PN1998.3.S76 (ebook) | DDC 791.43/75092 [B]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020003631

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020003632

eISBN 978-0-358-34566-4
v2.0720

Excerpts from Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker by James Riordan. Copyright © 1995 by James Riordan. Used by permission of James Riordan. All rights reserved. Conan script excerpts © Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation, Inc. Used by permission. Scarface script copyright © 1984 Universal City Studios, Inc. Used by permission of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC. All rights reserved. All photographs courtesy of the author unless otherwise noted.