Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Breakdancing With Hollywood

Cost: $AU 19.95, from all mildly dubious bookstores

In 2004, acclaimed up-and-coming screenwriter Dan Liebke kept a detailed diary of his attempts to write and get produced a movie length screenplay in Hollywood. Breakdancing With Hollywood

tells the details of this epic quest.

Originally published online, this written account explores the original diary entries in much greater detail, with footnotes, a vast ‘Where Are They Now?’ section, Ashley Judd’s famous trout daiquiri recipe and the final draft of the only version of the screenplay to which Liebke now retains rights.

Breakdancing With Hollywood is an object lesson, a how-to guide and a viable directorial project and is available where all good object lesson, how-to guide and viable directorial projects are sold.

308 pages, $AU19.95, an Astonishing Tales publication

Rave Reviews

I have often said with regards to Hollywood that ‘Nobody Knows Anything’. Breakdancing With Hollywood proves this maxim completely, with Liebke knowing less than anybody. – William Goldman, screenwriter

This book is just what my lawyers have been waiting for. – Kristin Davis, alleged former fiancee

When is his birthday again? – Kylie Minogue, pop princess

Excerpts

You can find excerpts from this book, modified for the World Wide Web, at this Screenwriter’s Diary page.

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