New Releases by Oliver STONE

Unfilmed screenplay. Signed by Oliver Stone.

Typescript, dated May 21, 1984.

Now adapted into graphic novel format—the “riveting, eye-opening, and thought-provoking” (The Guardian) New York Times bestselling companion to the critically acclaimed Showtime documentary about the largely unknown true rise and decline of the American empire. Since its initial publication in 2012, the New York Times bestselling companion to the critically acclaimed Showtime documentary by award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and renowned historian Peter Kuznick has been translated into more than twenty languages, updated in 2019 to include new material, and published in a two-volume set for young readers, with its source material airing around the world. Now in beautifully inked graphic novel format, this adaptation of the modern classic breathes new life into key moments: from the rise of the American empire; to the madness of the apocalyptic nuclear age; and to the disastrous wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. Adapted by comics writer Scott Cunningham and illustrated by Hugo Award–winning cartoonist Steve Stiles and veteran comics artist Jim Fern, this fresh retelling of Stone and Kuznick’s riveting masterpiece boldly confronts the powerful forces at work behind an often half-told American history.

The true story of a young American tourist who, busted for smuggling drugs, is sentenced to 30 years in a Trukish gaol. Forced to endure immense brutality, he realises he will die unless he escapes, or in prison jargon, "catches the midnight express."

Cheated by a prostitute and her pimp in Mexico, college student Eric Welles is arrested at the U.S. border for drugs. A judge remands him to the U.S. Marine Corps and he ends up in Vietnam. He fights there, losing an arm, and his innocence. Before coming home, he falls in love with a Vietnamese prostitute in Saigon. Once discharged, Eric attempts to return to his parent''s home but, instead, becomes immersed in a combination of fantasy and a hypnotic set of adventures that lead him back to Mexico in search of the hooker and pimp that got him in trouble before Vietnam. The tale ends with him killing the pimp, kidnapping the prostitute, and, ultimately, dying himself at the hands of the Mexican police, at the very place on the border where his life went bad the first time. -- Unproduced