Capote

The screenplay of the new film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote on his six-year investigation of a cold-blooded killer

It's 1959, and the celebrated author of Breakfast at Tiffany's is desperate for a new subject. Deep in rural Kansas a family of four is brutally murdered. In an unlikely conjunction, the flamboyant, homosexual Capote sets out to investigate the case...

The result was a gripping book about humanity's capacity for evil, In Cold Blood

But what are Capote's own motives as he waits impatiently for the death sentence to be carried out so that he can finish his masterpiece?

'A clear, steady gaze graces the smart biopic Capote ... It's an etched-in-acid portrait of a writer whose talent was as ruthless as it was brilliant' ~ Newsweek

'One of the best films of the year' ~ Rolling Stone

Best Adapted Screenplay Nomination, 2006 Oscars

Best Screenplay, Los Angeles Film Critics Awards (shared with The Squid and the Whale)

This is one of the NHB Shooting Script series - in addition to the full screenplay, this volume contains -

Foreword by Gerald Clarke, author of the biography Capote, and an excerpt from the book
Q&As with writer Dan Futterman and director Bennett Miller
Background notes on Capote and In Cold Blood
8 pages of colour stills
Cast and crew credits