Oscar-winning director-producer Ed Zwick is engaged on a memoir, with all of the highs and the lows and in-betweens.
Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc, introduced that Zwick’s “Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood,” will be published Feb 13. Zwick’s directing credits include “Glory” and “Legends of the Fall,” for which he acquired Golden Globe nominations; together with the much less profitable “Pawn Sacrifice” and “The Great Wall.” He additionally was a co-creator of the extremely regarded TV sequence “Thirtysomething.”
He gained a greatest image Academy Award as one of many producers of “Shakespeare In Love,” and he was nominated as a producer of “Traffic.”
According to Gallery, the e-book will hint “the head spinning ascents and vertiginous plunges that define a career in Hollywood.” Zwick, 70, has labored with such high stars as Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Annette Bening and Bruce Willis.
“Even as the business undergoes yet another seismic shift, those of us who do the actual work (as opposed to those who hoard the lion’s share of its profits) have no choice but to keep going,” Zwick said in a statement. “This book is my attempt to understand that impulse. And to celebrate it in all its absurdities, ambivalences, and grace.”
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