Stephen Rebello

Stephen Rebello
Born Stephen Rebello
Fall River, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation Author
Known for Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

Stephen Rebello is an American writer, screenwriter, and former clinical therapist.

Early life

Born to parents of third-generation Portuguese American and French-Portuguese American extraction in Fall River, Massachusetts, Rebello was raised in Somerset, Massachusetts. He graduated from Somerset High School where he co-edited the school newspaper and was a soloist in the mixed chorus. As a child singer, he had performed on a weekly radio show and done extensive live performances.

He graduated with a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he double majored in literature and psychology. He received a master's from Simmons College School of Social Work in Boston.

Writing career

After several years as a clinical social worker and supervisor at a Harvard University-affiliated hospital and also as a private therapist in Boston, he relocated in 1980 to Los Angeles. Continuing his work as a therapist, he eventually branched into journalism, publishing feature articles and interviews in The Real Paper, Cinefantastique,[1][2] American Film Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Saturday Review, Cosmopolitan, Movieline, GQ and More, among others.

His interview subjects have included David Fincher, James Spader, Chuck Yeager, Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, Denis Leary, Robert Downey, Jr., Sigourney Weaver, and Scarlett Johansson. He is a Playboy magazine Contributing Editor.

Reel Art (1988)

On May 30, 1988, his award-winning non-fiction book Reel Art: Great Posters From the Golden Age of the Silver Screen (with Richard C. Allen) was published by Abbeville Press. The book generated film poster exhibitions in 1988 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, New York and in 1990 in the Paine Webber Building in New York City.[3] The book was honored at an event at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of the best ever written about Hollywood.

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (1990)

Rebello's 1990 non-fiction book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, distributed by W. W. Norton, received considerable praise on publication. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the May 7, 1990 edition of the New York Times declared it a "meticulous history of a single film production."[2][4] Critic, author and filmmaker Richard Schickel called the book "indispensable and marvelously readable" and "one of the best accounts of the making of an individual movie we've ever had." Reviewer Gary Johnson called the book "one of the best books ever written about the making of a movie" and "unquestionably the best source available." [5] Critic Leonard Maltin on his blog called the book a "landmark."

Paperback editions have been published by St. Martin's Griffin and by W. W. Norton. Hardcover editions have been published in the U.K., Australia, Italy, and Japan. The book has become a standard and continues to be used in film studies classes on director Alfred Hitchcock.

Work at Disney (1990s)

During the latter half of the 1990s, Rebello worked alongside many Disney artists as a writer on several animated film concepts and projects that remain unproduced. He also wrote three books for Disney Hyperion based on the art of Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and Hercules. In addition, Rebello developed a teleplay for a live-action Disney musical for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), which is yet to be produced.

Hitchcock (2012)

Main article: Hitchcock (film)

In 2005, several entertainment magazines announced the optioning of the screen rights to Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho for a television movie or miniseries. That option was superseded when two other major production companies optioned the rights for a theatrical motion picture version. In January 2010, Paramount Pictures purchased the screen rights to the book. The film began development in 2011 by The Montecito Picture Company with director Sacha Gervasi at the helm of the feature, subsequently entitled Hitchcock. Early screenplay drafts were written by Black Swan co-writer John J. McLaughlin; Rebello wrote a number of subsequent drafts. By late 2011, Fox Searchlight Pictures bought the project and the film was cast with Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, James D'Arcy, Jessica Biel, Toni Collette, Danny Huston, Michael Stuhlbarg, Ralph Macchio, Michael Wincott, Richard Portnow and Richard Chassler. Principal photography began on location on April 13, 2012 and the film was released in selected U.S. cities on November 23, 2012, with a nationwide and worldwide theatrical expansion thereafter. "Hitchcock' was chosen as the opening night film of the 2012 American Film Institute's annual film festival, with Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln' as the closing night attraction.

Bibliography

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References

  1. ↑ Rebello, Stephen (1986). "Psycho: The Making of Hitchcock's Masterpiece".
  2. 1 2 Rebello, Stephen (1982). "Paul Schrader's Horror Chic - Cat People".
  3. ↑ Lyons, Richard D. (April 18, 1990). "Real Estate: More Buildings Unite Art and Commerce".
  4. ↑ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (1990). "Casaba, He Intoned, and a Screen Nightmare was Born".
  5. ↑ Johnson, Gary. "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Psycho".
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