Books That Take You Beyond the Screen
Here are a couple of book recommendations that build upon the story created in two different movies - Heat and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. These are not the source material for the screenplays. They are more like sequels that add to the story. Both were written after the release of the movies.
This follow the events of the robbery in the movie. One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) is holed up in Koreatown, wounded, half delirious, and desperately trying to escape LA. Hunting him is LAPD detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). Hours earlier, Hanna killed Shiherlis’s brother in arms Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) in a gunfight under the strobe lights at the foot of an LAX runway. Now Hanna’s determined to capture or kill Shiherlis, the last survivor of McCauley’s crew, before he ghosts out of the city.
This book is focused on Cliff Booth and shows his life and what he is doing when not in screen in the movie. Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction—at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal—is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film.
