Paul Fischer is an author and film producer based in the United Kingdom. His first book, A KIM JONG-IL PRODUCTION, has been translated into 12 languages. It was nominated for the Crime Writers’ Association’s Nonfiction Book Award. It was chosen as one of Library Journal’s Top Ten Books of the Year and one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year. It was also nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography. Paul has also written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Independent, amongst others.

In addition to writing, he works as a film producer and is an alumni of the Guiding Lights mentorship program. His first feature screenplay, The Body, based on a short film of his conception, was produced by Blumhouse and Hulu in 2018, starring Tom Bateman (Vanity Fair), Rebecca Rittenhouse ("The Mindy Project"), Aurora Perrineau (Truth or Dare), David Hull ("Crazy Ex-Girlfriend") and Ray Santiago (Ash vs. Evil Dead).

Books by Paul Fischer

The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg ― and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema

by Paul Fischer - Biography, Entertainment, History, Nonfiction

In the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying, an intense, uncompromising young film school graduate named George Lucas walked onto the Warner Bros backlot for his first day working as an assistant to another up-and-coming filmmaker, Francis Ford Coppola. At the exact same time, across town on the Universal Studios lot, a film-obsessed 20-year-old, Steven Spielberg, longed to break free from his apprenticeship and become a film director in his own right. Based on extensive research and hundreds of original interviews with the inner circle of these Hollywood icons, THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how, over the next 15 years, the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled to reinvent popular American cinema.