Marc Norman

Marc Norman is a veteran author and screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards in 1999 for his work on Shakespeare in Love. He lives with his wife in Santa Monica, California.

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Untitled Vivaldi

In 1705, the composer Antonio Vivaldi was hired as the conductor of an all-girl orchestra at the Pieta Orphanage in Venice, Italy. Vivaldi was a young, handsome 25 at the time.

Shakespeare in Love, First Draft

I've received several requests over the years to make my early drafts of Shakespeare in Love available. Here's one of them ...

Cold Dark Sea

A Chinese spy submarine sinks to the bottom off the coast of North Korea. There’s only one country in the world with the capability of rescuing the Chinese crew alive.

Mr. Horsepower

1946 in Los Angeles. The young guys were back from the war, a lot of them wanted to blow off some steam before they got down to their new peacetime lives.

Juarez

Four teen-aged boys from South Dakota travel to Mexico to become drug lords. What could possibly go wrong?

Hertzog

Paul Witt asked me to write a screenplay about a revolution in Bolivia. I asked him what else he had. “Nothing,” he said. “A revolution in Bolivia—that’s all I’ve got.”

Ocracoke

History records that Edward Teach, the pirate known as Blackbeard , was killed in a hand-to-hand battle with Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the Royal Navy and his crew of volunteers aboard Blackbeard’s ship in Ocracoke Inlet.

Book - What Happens Next

The whole rich story is here: Herman Mankiewicz and the telegram he sent from Hollywood to his friend Ben Hecht in New York: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots."