Zapp! - The Unproduced Screenplay

First Edition. Signed and inscribed by writer / director Ib Melchior: Zappped good, Stephen, your friend, Ib - Ib Melchior. Paperbound. Fine. Ib Melchior wrote this screenplay in the late 1990s as a light comedy fantasy on Hollywood concerning the comeuppance of an unscrupulous, thievish movie mogul and an unethical, amoral motion picture studio. He had been just such a victim several times. On advice from others, he accepted the facts and began writing Zappp!for comfort. While seeking a protagonists and antagonist, he was nearly run off a road while driving. He wished he had the power tozappthe offensive driver and make all the spark plugs in his car jump out, and suddenlythere was his idea. Ib Melchior (September 17, 1917 March 14, 2015) was a Danish-American novelist, short-story writer, film producer, film director, and screenwriter of American science fiction movies, most of them released by American International Pictures including The Angry Red Planet, The Time Travelers, Reptilicus, Journey to the Seventh Planet, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, and Planet of the Vampires. b Melchior (September 17, 1917 March 14, 2015) was a Danish-American novelist, short-story writer, film producer, film director, and screenwriter of American science fiction movies, most of them released by American International Pictures including The Angry Red Planet, The Time Travelers, Reptilicus, Journey to the Seventh Planet, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, and Planet of the Vampires. Melchior was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, the son of Lauritz Melchior, an opera singer. He served in the Counterintelligence Corps (U.S. Army) during World War II. He also participated in the liberation of Flossenb rg concentration camp as well as the discovery of stolen currency, gold and art at Merkers-Kieselbach Cavern, and the capture of a Werwolf unit in 1945, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star.

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Publisher: BearManor Media

Year: 2012

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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