Books I've actually finished lately: 64

The science of the movie screenplay

in which there are a handful of interesting facts, generally concerning Lord of the Rings - 'one of the biggest successful film projects ever' - and most especially the bit where we are instructed ('Screenwriting Pitfalls') never ever to rely on the Deus ex machina, like, and I quote, 'the eagles at the end of The Lord of the Rings'.

Books I've actually finished lately: 38

Freely available on the Internet.

I only found out recently

that Stanley Kubrick had done a film-script on Napoleon.

Which you can find liberally scattered about the internet.

Jackpot.