“Invaluable.” - Joel Schumacher, Director of The Phantom of the Opera, Batman Forever “If you want to learn screenwriting, this is the book for you.” - Aaron Spelling For decades, Lew Hunter’s Screenwriting 434 class at UCLA has been recognized as *the* premiere screenwriting course. This spirited and competitive graduate workshop has launched a generation of the film industry’s most frequently produced (and well-paid) writers. Now Hunter shares the secrets of his successful course as he guides the reader through every step of the screenwriting process, by actually writing an original script, step by step.